List Block Overview

To get started, you need to connect a data source from Settings ⇒ Data Source or or hit Connect Data Source directly from the block settings sidebar (Source tab). Learn more about data sources and how to configure them here.

As soon as you connect a data source, your block settings will become available and you can start setting it up. In this overview, we will not build a list but will rather review different list layouts and explore their specific features. So, let’s review the settings that are common for all the list layouts, and then we'll take a closer look at each layout in the next sections.

After adding any of the list layouts from Blocks => Dynamic => List, you need to select the source where you want to import your data from. This is done from the Source tab of the block settings. Below, we’ve selected Airtable as a data source and can now select the specific base and table we want to connect to.

As soon as we select a Base and Table, we'll see the rest of the Source settings appear below. Let's take a look at those as well.

Here, you can set one of your Airtable table views as a default view, and the items in the list will be sorted and filtered according to the sorting and filtering configuration of that particular view. It can be a different type (e.g. "Calendar") or the same type but with different configuration (e.g. with different filters applied).

Sort by

Here you have a list of available sorting options based on your Airtable fields (columns). Each field will have an ascending and descending order options (see below).

Items per page

You can choose how many items appear in the list by default. If there are more items to display, a See More button will be added at the end of the list, allowing the user to expand the list and view the additional items.

Items per row

You can also choose how many items ("3" or "4") each row should contain.

This field allows you to customize the message that's shown when the block can't fetch any results for a given search query or due to some other reason.

Conditional Filters allow you to filter the list for one or more users based on the defined conditions. Check out the List Conditional Filters section for more details.

Next, we have the Content tab, where we can configure some additional parameters for our list block as well as map the block fields to Airtable to specify what data needs to be displayed and how. Let's take a look.

You can enable this toggle to add a Title and Subtitle to your List. You can also configure the position of the texts.

Lists can have one or more Inline Filters, where you can define specific fields and their options, using which users can filter the list.

Label

Here you set the title of the filter.

Filter by

And this is where you choose which table field you want to have the list filtered by. All the table fields are available for selection (see below).

Options

Next, you need to set the available options for the selected fields. For instance, if you want to filter by the "Language" field, and it has "English" and "German" as its options, you can add any of these options here (separated by a semi-colon) to appear as the filter categories.

However, if the selected Filter by fields's type is single- or multi-select, the options will be fetched from Airtable automatically. In the example below, we select the Status field which is single-select and has task status options on Airtable as shown below.

Below you can see how the options are generated after selecting the field in Filter by.

Position

Further on, you can set the position of your filter (Top, Left, or Right).

Show as

You can display the filter options as Tags or a Dropdown as shown below. If the Tags option is selected, you can also choose to display one tag per line as well as specify colors for tags. Let’s take a closer look at the Colors settings.

Colors

This option is displayed if you choose to show your inline filters as tags. The Single option assigns all the tags with the same color scheme defined in inline filter’s style settings.

The As defined in the data source option assigns the tags with the same colors that they have in the data source. Below we demonstrate how this works on the example of the “Status” field on Airtable.

The last option simply applies random colors.

Allow multiselect

If you enable this, the users will be able to select more than one option at a time.

Show Search Bar

Using this toggle you can remove the search bar from your list if you don't need it.

Placeholder search text

Here you can customize the text that appears within the search bar as a placeholder.

Search by

Under this option, you choose which fields the search is going to be performed by. You can add one or more fields, but if you don't add anything, the search will return all the list items for any query. Therefore, it's best to select at least one field for meaningful results.

This is where you configure how the Airtable base is going to be mapped to your list. For each layout (discussed in the next sections under List), there is a default set of fields, for which you can set a corresponding field (Content) from your Airtable base or hide the field if you don't need it.

Apart from that, you can add new fields using the Add field button. After adding the field, you need to specify its Type and set Content (corresponding Airtable field). For some types, there is also a Label parameter added (appears above the field content), which can be modified or removed if not needed.

There is a variety of types to choose from, so let's go through them one by one:

Here, you can configure the See More button's (for showing more items in the list) label and styling.

See how this works here.

In this tab, you can add Action Buttons to your List.

You can automatically filter a list without needing the search bar of user-facing filters by using URL parameters in your page URL. For example, on a page where you want to filter a project list by the name using the URL itself such as https://example.com/projects?projectName=Kingsport%20Diner you would create a conditional filter for the Project Name with the value {URL_PARAM:projectName}.

Notice that the projectName is subjective and can be whatever you like, but it needs to be used in both the URL and the conditional filter to work properly. Avoid using spaces and symbols in URL parameter names. If you need to use spaces or symbols in the parameter’s value, make sure they are URL encoded such as Kingsport%20Diner (Kingsport Diner).