Thought this might be a good regular conversation piece - what is on your mind (when it comes to Airtable)?
I’ll kick us off:
I’m about to undertake a revamp of how we organise our workspaces/bases. Until now, everything was in one workspace (except for sandboxes and templates). But because we want to keep workspace creator permissions low (literally me, IT and C suite) so that people cannot snoop in and out of any base, creating new bases is down to me. There is no separation of creating bases from access to all bases… AFAIK anyway.
So, I’m now looking at splitting out into departmental workspaces to free up permissions. Plus, our SSO/SKIM provisioning can then automate a lot of things for onboarding/offboarding.
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What is on your mind? UK Crew - June 2026
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+9Yes, definitely benefits with splitting out Workspaces with certain Bases within them. We’ve done that to isolate important Tables or whole Bases where we need to restrict editing rights etc, as previously the Base sat in a Workspace that more Users had access to.
However, if you’re keeping access to most just Interfaces for Users, then it doesn’t matter so much which Workspace the Bases sit in. Definitely easier getting the granular level of permissions from Interfaces because as soon as people have access to a Base and/or the whole Workspace, then you lose the ability to control things for specific people.
+9I faced this exact issue a few years ago and we implemented Stacker on top of our Airtable data-layer. It offers extremely granular field level permissions and condition-based permissions. Interfaces didn’t exist then so I also couldn’t have carte-blanche access.
Stacker solved the issue but has been pretty stagnant in their own development so I’m now migrating 14 apps, 15000 fields and 2m records over to Noloco as a replacement. About half way through a 6-month project. Airtable will remain as the data and automation layers which I think are its strong points.
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