The Hide fields button opens the Fields restrictions window. Each column gets an access there: Read / Write, Read-only or Invisible.
The setting applies to the active view. The table's other views do not change. After a change, check your other views.
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1. How do you hide a column in a view?
You set it view by view, from the view's toolbar.
2. Which state should each column have?
Each column takes one of the three accesses below, in the active view. The counters at the bottom of the window total each access.
Several columns at once: tick the checkbox next to each column, then apply the access you want.
3. Does the column stay visible in the record?
The Also hide in card view checkbox is checked by default. It decides whether an invisible column stays readable in the record.
A setting to know: keep the checkbox checked if the column must not be read anywhere in this view.
4. Why hide columns before sharing or exporting?
Sharing or exporting a view delivers its visible columns. Hide what must not go out first.
So that nobody shows the columns again: lock the view options once they are set → Lock view options
A setting to know: a visible History of changes column shows changes to every column, even invisible ones. Set it to Invisible in the shared view → History of changes
5. Go further
Go further
Create and use a mirror view
Prepare the view before sharing it.
Go further
Set up an FTP / SFTP transfer
Choose the source view of an export.
Go further
Lock view options
Freeze filters, sorts and restrictions.