Get Started

Get Started with On2Air Schemas. On2Air Schemas generates a diagram to visualize your Airtable base structure and track changes to meta information for all tables, view, fields, and relationships. Understand and view your Airtable base configuration at a glance.

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• 1. Install the App from the Airtable Marketplace

• 📽 Get Started Videos

• 2. Generate Your New Schema

• 3. About the Schema Diagram

• 4. Diagram Expanded Field Information

• See all available Options included in the Details tab

• 5. Field History - Expanded View

• 6. Field Relationships - Expanded View

• 7. Field Visibility within Views - Expanded

• 8. Field Notes - Expanded

• Create Filters to View Your Schema in Different Ways

• Snapshot History of your Schema

• See Changes in Base, Tables, Views, and Fields

• TABLES Tab

• VIEWS Tab

• FIELDS Tab

• Share Your Schema

• Print Your Schema

• Export Your Schema

• Settings

• Delete Your Schema

• 💬 Need to Chat?

1. Install the App from the Airtable Marketplace

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Install the Schemas App

📽 Get Started Videos

You can expand each video to full width by clicking the expand icon on the bottom right of the video

📽 Start Using On2Air Schemas

📽 On2Air Schemas - Filters

📽 Snapshots and History Tracking

📽 Schemas List View

📽 Share, Export, or Print Your Schema

2. Generate Your New Schema

Once you’ve added the app, your schema diagram will automatically be created!

If you have between 1 - 49 tables, you’ll see the diagram right away

If you have 50+ tables, they will be minimized. Click on each table to expand the table.

3. About the Schema Diagram

You can move all your tables around to view the schema.

You can hover over the fields to see Field Descriptions and the Field type

If you have Relationships chosen in your filter, you can hover over fields and click on each field to see connected fields and tables

4. Diagram Expanded Field Information

When you click on any field from the Diagram area, another window will showcase more details about each field, such as the field type, formula, referenced fields in the formula, and more. Depending on the field type, you can see a variety of advanced information about each field.

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See all available Options included in the Details tab

5. Field History - Expanded View

You can view any changes to the specific field and when it happened. You can view changes to formulas, and name changes to fields, tables, or the base.

6. Field Relationships - Expanded View

You can view all Field Relationships, where they are linked, and where they are referenced. You can view any formula, rollup, lookup, count and other relationships. You can click through to any other related or referenced field.

7. Field Visibility within Views - Expanded

In View, you can see if the field is visible or not visible in specific Views

8. Field Notes - Expanded

Add internal notes to any field. These are only visible in the Schemas app. Once you add a new note, it will be displayed on the Details tab of the field

Create Filters to View Your Schema in Different Ways

You can create custom filters to showcase specific tables, specific field types, or relationship types.

Save your filter

Once you have filter options selected, you can create a custom filter

Click Save Filter

Enter the name of your filter

You can Manage your filters and switch between different ones.

Click Manage Filters

Note: After 50 tables, you won’t be able to see the relationships on the diagram. You’ll need to expand each table and click on the field to see related fields and tables

Snapshot History of your Schema

Each time your Schema changes, you can create a Snapshot to track changes.

You’ll be prompted to “Save Schema Changes” and create a snapshot when it changes

Click the button to generate a new snapshot

You can then see a list of your Snapshots. When you click them, you can see what was changed.

In this example, you can see we changed the table name of Events to a new name of Company Events

See Changes in Base, Tables, Views, and Fields

You can display the changes in the base name, tables, views, and fields in each tab

Click the tab you want to see and then choose the specific table, view, or field

The Snapshot column will show you which snapshot the change occurred. When you click the Snapshot name, you can see what change was made in that Snapshot

TABLES Tab

In the Tables tab, you can see a list of Tables and the associated Snapshot

You can also enable or disable Deleted Tables

VIEWS Tab

In the Views tab, you can see a list of Views and the View Type.

You can then switch between Tables to see the Views for various tables

You can also enable or disable Deleted Views

FIELDS Tab

In the Fields tab, you can see a list of Fields and the Field Type

You can then switch between Tables to see the Fields in various tables

You can also enable or disable Deleted Fields

Share Your Schema

You can share the base schema with others

Go to the Share tab and Enable sharing with the toggle

You can then choose to View Public version of the Schema or Copy the Schema link to your clipboard

Print Your Schema

You can print your schema for easier viewing

Click View Print Layout above the diagram

Export Your Schema

You can export and download your Schema in the Export tab

Choose between JSON or CSV format and click Download

Settings

There is a code for security purposes.

Code is used for security purpose of transmitting your schema data.

Refresh to generate a new code and invalidate previous code.

Delete Your Schema

Delete your Schema by clicking Delete Schema in the Settings tab

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