Folders

Organize tables, documents, and dashboards into collapsible folders in the base sidebar.

Folders let you group tables, documents, and dashboards into collapsible sections in the base sidebar. As a base grows, folders keep the sidebar navigable: separate delivery work from finance, keep a dashboard next to the tables it draws from, or mirror how your teams split the work.

Create a folder

There are two ways to create a folder:

• Open the Create New menu at the top of the sidebar and choose Folder . The same option is available from the + button in the mini sidebar.

• Open an item's context menu ( ... ), hover over Move to... , and click New folder . The item is moved into the new folder in the same step, and the folder takes the item's position in the sidebar.

• For an external data source, click the + next to the source name and choose Folder . The folder is scoped to that source.

New folders get a default name ("Folder", "Folder 2", and so on). Double-click the folder name to rename it.

Move items in and out

• Drag a table, document, or dashboard into a folder, or drag it back out to the top level.
• Or use the item's context menu: hover over Move to... and pick the target folder. Choose Remove from folder to move the item back to the top level.

Manage folders

Click the ... on a folder header for its actions:

• Expand all / Collapse all - expand or collapse every folder at once.
• Icon colour - pick a colour for the folder icon, or Reset it to the default.
• Rename folder and Delete folder .

Deleting a folder does not delete anything inside it: all items move back to the top level of the sidebar.

Notes

• Folders are scoped to a data source: a base with an external data source gets its own set of folders per source, and folder names only need to be unique within their source.
• Folders organize the sidebar only; they do not change permissions or how items behave.
• To organize views inside a table the same way, see View Folders .

Availability

• Folders are available on all plans, on NocoDB Cloud and self-hosted deployments, including the Community Edition.
• Only base Creators and Owners can create, rename, recolour, or delete folders. Other members see folders but cannot manage them.

Related pages

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• Base Collaboration : This article explains how to invite members or teams to your base, manage their roles, and remove them when needed.
• Share Base : Procedures to share a base & generating embedded iframe
• Base Snapshots : Procedures to create and manage snapshots
• Base Trash ☁ : View, restore, and permanently delete trashed items — records, tables, views, fields, dashboards, widgets, workflows, scripts, and extensions — from a single base-level Trash.
• Trash Settings ☁ : Configure per-table trash retention and disable trash on a per-table basis.
• Private Base : Learn how to configure and manage access to Private Bases in NocoDB.