# Get selected data to dataview from airtable? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Tags:** airtable, blocks, data-viewer\ **Created:** [February 22, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-selected-data-to-dataview-from-airtable/2291569 "2023-02-22T21:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thomas.lorentzonsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@thomas.lorentzonsi](https://community.thunkable.com/u/thomas.lorentzonsi)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-selected-data-to-dataview-from-airtable/2291569/1 "2023-02-22T21:15:54Z")
I have a dataview and I have connected this to a air table data source and can retrieve data. However I would like to get selected data from the airtable database to the dataview from blocks , but I cant find a solution for this? //T ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-selected-data-to-dataview-from-airtable/2291569/2 "2023-02-22T21:46:45Z")
Are you wanting to display only certain Airtable rows in a Data Viewer List (or Grid)? If so, I recommend that you use the Airtable API and the _filterByFormula_ command. To get started, Google _filterbyformula airtable Thunkable_ and you’ll find several topics related to that. ---
**Author:** ![thomas.lorentzonsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@thomas.lorentzonsi](https://community.thunkable.com/u/thomas.lorentzonsi)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-selected-data-to-dataview-from-airtable/2291569/3 "2023-03-02T19:11:54Z")
I have now Googled filterbyformula and tried to find a way to update my Data Viewer List, but I can’t figure out how to update the Data Viewer list even if I do a filterbyformula? Below you see my block and for DataViewerList I only find “Refreshdata”? Any ideas? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/7/5/756bbcb617b097419c43299a8db09aac3fc8a465.png) ---
**Author:** ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-selected-data-to-dataview-from-airtable/2291569/4 "2023-03-02T20:10:19Z")
If the rows in your Airtable are only few I would use the hide/show rows of the DataView to achieve what you want. See my sample project [https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/6182dddab8ae1a001142ac60](https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/6182dddab8ae1a001142ac60) ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-selected-data-to-dataview-from-airtable/2291569/5 "2023-03-02T20:16:53Z")
@muneer has a good suggestion but I also forgot to mention that you’d need to delete all rows from the local data source synced to the Data Viewer and then create a row in the local data source for each row of the Airtable database. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/get-selected-data-to-dataview-from-airtable/2291569/6 "2023-05-31T20:17:16Z")
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