# Need help filtering data from Airtable

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/need-help-filtering-data-from-airtable/3534558>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** beginner, help, airtable\
**Created:** [February 3, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/need-help-filtering-data-from-airtable/3534558 "2025-02-03T11:25:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![stolbjerge7o2v9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@stolbjerge7o2v9](https://community.thunkable.com/u/stolbjerge7o2v9)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/need-help-filtering-data-from-airtable/3534558/1 "2025-02-03T11:25:26Z")

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Hi all,

Super new to Thunkable here, but I have encountered a problem which I cannot solve myself or by browsing similar topics on this forum. I hope that you are able to help me!

I’m building an app to show users different reviews for different items. I have a database set up in Airtable and succesfully connected to Thunkable. My Airtable database consists of three columns (Category, Product name, Product description) and a whole bunch of rows with the products.

On my first screen I want users to click the category that they want to explore e.g. “Washing machine”. I have created a simple list, that lists the unique category names from my table in Airtable:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/6/06bf3922836939afcaf0510980d5b62520115ba4.png)

This works flawlessly. Now here comes my troubles: When users click the category, I want them to go to a second screen where I display the products from my database (in a list for now, but in a custom data viewer in the long run) that match the category that they selected previously (filter the data based on a condition).

The closest I have come to a solution is below, but that just inputs a single letter in every line in the simple list.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/7/3/73ed96ff8be68ce119c7ecf4665dcd950ce17a2a.png)

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/need-help-filtering-data-from-airtable/3534558/2 "2025-02-04T22:31:15Z")

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Hello @stolbjerge7o2v9  
Have you tried to use [filter view](https://docs.thunkable.com/getting-started/data-sources#add-filter-view) and a data viewer?  
You could set the condition on the filter dynamically using the [update filter block](https://docs.thunkable.com/blocks/app-features/data-sources-blocks#update-filter-for-block-overview).

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**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 5, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/need-help-filtering-data-from-airtable/3534558/3 "2025-05-05T22:31:51Z")

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