Import an Airtable base

Rowbase has no Airtable connector: importing goes through a CSV file. One Airtable table gives one Rowbase sheet. Allow a minute per table.

Export from Airtable

Open the table's grid view, then Download CSV from the view menu. Export with no active filter if you want every row: the export follows the view, not the table.

Import into Rowbase

From the grid, click Import a CSV. Rowbase reads the first line as headers, detects each column's type from the values, and lets you correct it before writing.

Detection recognises, in this order: email, URL, checkbox, date, number, then select when a column holds only a small number of distinct values. Otherwise the column is text.

Columns are created on the open sheet. A column whose name already exists is reused as is; otherwise it is appended.

What carries over

• The columns and their order
• Text, numbers, dates, emails and URLs
• Dropdown lists, rebuilt with one colour per distinct value
• Checkboxes
• Every row of the exported view

What does not

• Attachments and images
• Formulas and computed fields — the export holds their frozen value, which arrives as text
• Links between tables, imported as text
• Views, interfaces and automations

After the import

• Check date columns: the format read is the file's, not your browser's.
• Rename the technical columns Airtable sometimes adds to exports.
• Connect the sheet to Google Sheets if your existing dashboards rely on it.