# April 4, 2024 / One-column Entity View layout, mirrored context Folders

**URL:** https://community.fibery.io/t/april-4-2024-one-column-entity-view-layout-mirrored-context-folders/6054
**Category:** Changelog
**Created:** [April 4, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/april-4-2024-one-column-entity-view-layout-mirrored-context-folders/6054 "2024-04-04T12:02:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![YvetteLans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/yvettelans/32/6101_2.png) [@YvetteLans](https://community.fibery.io/u/YvetteLans)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 11:49am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/april-4-2024-one-column-entity-view-layout-mirrored-context-folders/6054/23 "2024-04-05T11:49:58Z")

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> [@antoniokov](#):
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> We’ll allow displaying to-many relations in a compact manner later, probably in a few weeks. This should tidy things up for sure.

That’s awesome 🤩

> [@antoniokov](#):
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> Could you please elaborate on this one? The Field description is present, no matter the layout:

My bad, I had a view with no descriptions 😅 Awesome that it’s visible now!

> [@antoniokov](#):
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> Managing the default value is complex for (new) Creators, choosing where to look between two almost identical sections (to the right, to the top) is complex for casual users. Here we have consciously limited the flexibility and power in favor of a more “onboardable” experience.

Can understand that. Don’t want to be in your shoes 😅 It’s hard to pick the best solution.

> [@antoniokov](#):
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> We will keep a close look at this and, perhaps, include pinned Fields when switching between a from 2-col to a 1-col layout.

That would be really helpful when people want to switch. But we still need to have a look per databases what’s best in the new situation.

> [@YvetteLans](#):
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> ## Resizable relation views on Entity View
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> - We have a lot of entities with relation views. In the current situation, I need to adjust each and every relation view to make it full width.
> - When it’s full width on my laptop screen, it’s not full width on my team member’s screen. So it looks really odd.
> - Also the title will not be left aligned when everything else is on full width. Which looks really uneasy.

Also really curious if there are plans to change the full width option or not at all. Since else we need to change all views manually.

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### Author: ![antoniokov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/antoniokov/32/201_2.png) [@antoniokov](https://community.fibery.io/u/antoniokov)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/april-4-2024-one-column-entity-view-layout-mirrored-context-folders/6054/24 "2024-04-05T13:22:06Z")

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> [@ccollins](#):
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> But the view itself can be changed to reflect any database that has a direct or indirect to-many relation to the entity. So if you are going to allow to-many relations as condensed fields (which I would love), why not also allow adding a to-many view without tying the name to a relation?

That was actually the initial idea that got discarded in favour of one-to-one Field-to-Entity-View-element mapping. We’ll revisit the option to create arbitrary (context) Views on Entity View after the next bunch of improvements.

> [@ccollins](#):
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> | - - - - - to-many view - - - - - -|  
> | - button- | -button- | -button- |  
> | - - - - - to-many view - - - - - -|  
> | - single field - | - single field - |  
> | - - - - - to-many view - - - - - -|

While I see how in experienced hands this might work great, we try to avoid complex layouts like this since it’s easy to mess them up and get a bad end-user UX.

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### Author: ![antoniokov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/antoniokov/32/201_2.png) [@antoniokov](https://community.fibery.io/u/antoniokov)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/april-4-2024-one-column-entity-view-layout-mirrored-context-folders/6054/25 "2024-04-05T13:26:50Z")

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> [@Sylvain\_Vuilliot](#):
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> And a last idea: why not allow for multiple named layouts of one database ? the same way you allow for multiple views of “many relation” in one entity view. It was such a good idea !

🔜 😉

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### Author: ![interr0bangr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/interr0bangr/32/8089_2.png) [@interr0bangr](https://community.fibery.io/u/interr0bangr)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/april-4-2024-one-column-entity-view-layout-mirrored-context-folders/6054/26 "2024-04-05T16:54:49Z")

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I would also request (like a few other people have already in this topic) that the main column be allowed to have “sub-columns” inside of it and those sub columns could hold anything (to one relationships, to many relationships, standard fields, buttons, docs, whiteboards, etc).

Maybe the standard “layout template” for everyone is pretty simple so new users wouldn’t get overwhelmed by having to create a custom layout before they could actually see anything, but a “Entity Layout” builder that could work similarly to drag & drop webpage builders or email builders and could be leveraged by more advanced users to truly customize layouts would be awesome. It would really remove the need to even have separate “main” and “compact/right” columns at all.

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### Author: ![YvetteLans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/yvettelans/32/6101_2.png) [@YvetteLans](https://community.fibery.io/u/YvetteLans)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/april-4-2024-one-column-entity-view-layout-mirrored-context-folders/6054/27 "2024-04-09T18:16:41Z")

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Fibery wasn’t mobile friendly, but it was possible to add a new item and fill in some fields. This isn’t possible anymore if you have a 1 column lay-out. Can this be fixed 🤞🏻?

 ![1000029287](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/2/2df6142f0272dffc675175538c6b8c72ee2510ec.jpeg)

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### Author: ![antoniokov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/antoniokov/32/201_2.png) [@antoniokov](https://community.fibery.io/u/antoniokov)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/april-4-2024-one-column-entity-view-layout-mirrored-context-folders/6054/28 "2024-04-16T15:12:58Z")

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We’ll polish the mobile 1-column layout. Thanks for the heads-up!

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/6/625bd0fb086c41bcd54fed62104cb026663c8ebc.png)

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### Author: ![Minh\_Tri\_Do\_Hang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/minh_tri_do_hang/32/6791_2.png) [@Minh\_Tri\_Do\_Hang](https://community.fibery.io/u/Minh_Tri_Do_Hang)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/april-4-2024-one-column-entity-view-layout-mirrored-context-folders/6054/29 "2024-06-14T06:43:43Z")

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I got the same issue with correcting text like this in Fibery desktop app

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/7/7a413b046c90d79d962c21c74722da6e683635a8.png)

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