Understanding the Primary Field in Airtable

Building a smarter database starts with understanding the basic and most useful field - the leftmost primary field. If you're not optimizing this field, you may be making extra work for yourself. Check out how to make it unique, identify its purpose, and use smart concatenate formulas.

In this video, I’ll break down the basics of the Primary Field and why this is so important for helping you organize your data. You'll see how to organize your data inside of the primary fields and learn my three rules to help you keep your primary fields as unique as possible. 

In this video, you'll learn about:

• Understanding how the Primary Field is positioned in Airtable
• The importance of using unique identifiers in Primary Field
• Pulling Record ID Formula
• Examining the Primary Fields in Multiple solutions
• How to make Primary Field as Unique as Possible
• Make sure the Primary Field identifies what information is here
• Rely on Concatonate Formulas
• Limitations of the Primary Field Identifiers
• How to modify the visual appearance of the Primary Field

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