# The ability to add a single field from the record view menu

**URL:** <https://community.noloco.io/t/the-ability-to-add-a-single-field-from-the-record-view-menu/1259>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [September 24, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/the-ability-to-add-a-single-field-from-the-record-view-menu/1259 "2024-09-24T23:59:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![danielrosehill](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/danielrosehill/32/840_2.png) [@danielrosehill](https://community.noloco.io/u/danielrosehill)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/the-ability-to-add-a-single-field-from-the-record-view-menu/1259/1 "2024-09-24T23:59:53Z")

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Hi everyone,

It would be very helpful if one were able to add a single field (from the associated data table)

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/noloco/original/1X/8e47003433d47eaaa9652962cdf753ca4aa3e1e7.png)

My go-to for this purpose is adding the “details” entry and then just showing a single field value on display … but this seems counterintuitive.

It would be nice to quickly add a field and its default frontend component would populate (e.g. a date picker for date fields, a text entry pad for strings, etc)

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**Author:** ![darragh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/darragh/32/12_2.png) [@darragh](https://community.noloco.io/u/darragh)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/the-ability-to-add-a-single-field-from-the-record-view-menu/1259/2 "2024-09-25T08:01:51Z")

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I’d love to understand this more @danielrosehill

What would be the difference in experience?

The benefits of the details component is that you can also choose to work off a linked record instead of the primary record

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**Author:** ![danielrosehill](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/danielrosehill/32/840_2.png) [@danielrosehill](https://community.noloco.io/u/danielrosehill)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/the-ability-to-add-a-single-field-from-the-record-view-menu/1259/3 "2024-09-25T17:07:47Z")

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Fair point, Darragh!

I think my thinking was more actually for ease of UI (for the admin).

Ie, rather than having to add a details record, then scan through a jumble of fields, _then_ pick out the one I need … it might be (marginally) easier to just frontload that process and pull it right into the nav.

But yes … wouldn’t put it as a big point of friction.