Enhancing Navigation for Large Lists in Link to table fields

When selecting an item in the ‘link to table’ field, there are currently displayed only a few at a time, divided into segments of ten per page.

This setup is inconvenient when you need to quickly find an item, especially if it’s the 20th, 30th, or 40th in the list. Although there is a search bar, it works then you need to find 1 item, but it’s not practical when you need to add multiple items at once, as it’s hard to keep in mind data of all of them at the same time.

A more user-friendly approach would be to have all items in a single list that dynamically loads more items as you scroll, similar to the functionality in Airtable.

Screenshot demonstrates a current baserow approach with pages

Thanks for the feedback @Alexander. I’ll discuss your idea with the team. :ok_hand:

Hey @Alexander, we think that, in general, our select row modal requires some UX redesign. This includes how rows are displayed, how they load, and so on. Here is an issue for this: UX redesign of the select row modal (#2439) · Issues · Baserow / baserow · GitLab

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