# \[APPROVED\] Simplify Database Setup Screen

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-simplify-database-setup-screen/2413>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [January 20, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-simplify-database-setup-screen/2413 "2022-01-20T15:55:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![rothnic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/rothnic/32/1850_2.png) [@rothnic](https://community.fibery.io/u/rothnic)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-simplify-database-setup-screen/2413/1 "2022-01-20T15:55:43Z")

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This could just be opinionated feedback, but to me the database setup screen when you create a new space is very confusing. There are three separate places that say “New Database” within a small area.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/7/7d02c2da21f6809404254242d57e034d8176431a.png)

I understand that what is happening here is that there is an initial default database created named “New Database”, then there is both a tab and heading with that name.

A simple proposal would be to use a different default naming scheme. For example, some options:

- {{App Name}} Database N
- {{App Name}} Items N
- {{App Name}} Things N
- {{App Name}} Data N

The idea basically is to incorporate the app name to differentiate the label from the New Database CTA. The N in the example would not be used unless there already is an existing database with the same name.

Example:

- App Name: Project Management
- Default first database: Project Management Database
- Second database: Project Management Database 2

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**Author:** ![Haslien](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/haslien/32/493_2.png) [@Haslien](https://community.fibery.io/u/Haslien)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-simplify-database-setup-screen/2413/2 "2022-01-20T16:18:08Z")

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I like the way entities are populated in new databases. Could databases be the same way with names?  
E.g. `Wonderful Database ✨", “Magnificent Database 💪”.

Only issue I can see with that though is that the idea that it is the newly created one is more hidden.

I don’t think it would be very scan-able to just append a number counter, as there’s virtually 1 letter that makes A different from B in most of these cases.

Database names would have to be shorter than entity names though.

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**Author:** ![Jean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Jean](https://community.fibery.io/u/Jean)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-simplify-database-setup-screen/2413/3 "2022-01-20T17:11:07Z")

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or “Untitled Database” — everyone is used to this from Word, etc

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**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-simplify-database-setup-screen/2413/4 "2022-01-20T18:45:00Z")

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Yeah, this was my first thought too. A more complicated approach might give some more “useful” default names, but almost everyone will want to change it anyway. So why put much effort into making it a “sensible” and unique DB name, checking existing DB names, etc? “Untitled Database” (or perhaps better “Unnamed Database”) is usefully differentiated from the _action_ of creating a “New Database”, while also being dead-simple to implement. I think it would succinctly solve the problem (which I agree is needlessly confusing!).

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**Author:** ![rothnic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/rothnic/32/1850_2.png) [@rothnic](https://community.fibery.io/u/rothnic)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-simplify-database-setup-screen/2413/5 "2022-01-20T19:16:30Z")

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> [@Oshyan](#):
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> “Untitled Database” (or perhaps better “Unnamed Database”)

> [@Jean](#):
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> “Untitled Database”

Yeah, I agree with these suggestions to just keep it simple but differentiate from the action of “+ New Database”.

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**Author:** ![mdubakov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/mdubakov/32/10_2.png) [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:57am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-simplify-database-setup-screen/2413/6 "2022-01-21T09:57:24Z")

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Good idea, we will go with “Untitled Database”
