# Best way to display a whiteboard in an entity

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/best-way-to-display-a-whiteboard-in-an-entity/9148>\
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**Created:** [July 7, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/best-way-to-display-a-whiteboard-in-an-entity/9148 "2025-07-07T19:38:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yuri\_BC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/yuri_bc/32/8803_2.png) [@Yuri\_BC](https://community.fibery.io/u/Yuri_BC)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/best-way-to-display-a-whiteboard-in-an-entity/9148/1 "2025-07-07T19:38:38Z")

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I’m only now trying to make Whiteboards work for me…so I’m a bit late at the party (intentionally) and the first thing that strikes me is how Whiteboards are not really integrated in the fibery UI very well?

The whiteboards field is a list view 🤨

Say for example I have a Page database and now and then I want to display a whiteboard in the Page entity view. It appears only possible by embedding it in an existing rich text field or create a dedicate rich text field to embed it in. This all is manual work.

Apart from the manual work, the closest that I can get to displaying whiteboards in entities in a more integrated way, is to

1. create a database ‘Whiteboard’ which entities embed a whiteboard each.
2. Then create a Feed view of the Whiteboards entities.  
that results in this example:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/b/b6ba5fbf444811490618d6c2e913afc39c7e5ebf.png)

But why do we need this workaround in such a complicated and manual way?  
Is there anything planned with regard to a whiteboards entity view?

Apart from all this, the border around an embed is very big and takes up a lot of screen real estate.

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**Author:** ![Renato\_Carvalho](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/renato_carvalho/32/11001_2.png) [@Renato\_Carvalho](https://community.fibery.io/u/Renato_Carvalho)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/best-way-to-display-a-whiteboard-in-an-entity/9148/2 "2025-07-08T22:24:33Z")

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Very interesting the solution you are trying to create to be able to preview whiteboards. I also have interest to be able to show Whiteboards in some views with the preview.

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/best-way-to-display-a-whiteboard-in-an-entity/9148/3 "2025-07-09T10:46:55Z")

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Just a couple of thoughts here:  
The current Whiteboard **s** field is basically a collection field, and list view is the simplest layout. It sounds like your primary use case is for having a Whiteboard field which allows to create/display a single whiteboard, right?  
Or did you want a collection field which supported multiple viewable whiteboards (and perhaps allowed you to tab through them)?

It’s true that the simplest way to currently show a whiteboard in an entity view is to embed it in a rich text field.  
But given that all databases start with a Description field by default, it doesn’t seem like too much manual work 🤷  
Did you know that you can create an embedded view from scratch by typing \<\< followed by the name of the view to be created, and then choosing the view type?