One thing I’m finding increasingly frustrating is the inability to edit most aspects of Fields after they’re created. Notion seems to be able to handle this much better, even allowing you to convert between field types (e.g. text vs. multi-select) and maintain some of the data. Another common chall…

100% agree, couldn’t have said it any better. This is an issue I deal with as well too, many times daily as my Fibery Instance expands. Re: Default values, I think it’s another feature that is unfinished. It is actually something Notion DOES NOT have, although they solve it in Templates which we …

Is there any workaround for this perhaps? It creates a rather harsh feedback loop “unless you get this right the first time…”

FYI I found a workaround for this for some fields. I renamed my “field” to “field_old”. Then create a new “field” with correct schema. I then open Entity in Table View, select whole “field_old” column and copy/paste to “field” column. It doesn’t work for “Rich text” - so be careful when deciding to…

Implementation started for basic fields (text, number, date)

this workaround works, but if you have dozens of different views and charts created (which use filter on the field which you want to change), then this trick won’t work

Very new to Fibery, how do you select a whole field, can’t find an option to do this to allow copy and paste.

[image] Simeon_Payne: how do you select a whole field Not sure what you mean by the ‘whole field’. Do you mean ‘select the value of a field and copy-paste into another field for all entities at once’?

I could be wrong, but I think he means something similar to excel or google sheets where you select the associated field name in the column header and it selects all “cells” within that column. I would naturally like that too, however I know it’s because I developed a false expectation from using sp…

Please see the workaround for changing field settings in the post above mine. I have raised the new field but cannot see how to copy the old one over to it. regards Simeon

To copy-pasteall values from one field to another, you will need to create a table view (if you don’t already have one) so you can see all entities, with the source and destination columns visible. Then you need to select all the cells in the source column (and the only way is to manually highlight…

Add ability to fully edit fields after creation

Ideas & Features

mdubakov June 25, 2026, 12:58pm 18

Now you can set default values for basic fields

Topic		Replies	Views
Create an new Entity "in-Entity" only using the Keyboard Ideas & Features	19	2558	August 12, 2023
[DONE] Multiple select or bulk editing Ideas & Features	38	6859	January 30, 2025
[PLANNED] Entity Templates - some ideas Ideas & Features	32	4664	May 12, 2026
"Convert Field type" capability Ideas & Features	3	976	December 31, 2024
Fields applicable to all types Ideas & Features flexible-domain	13	3513	September 7, 2020

Add ability to fully edit fields after creation

Related topics