Change view layout/type post creation (table -> list, list -> board)

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This is both a question and feature request.

Something that took adjustment coming from Notion was the difference between creating different views.

I think Fibery is better in Notion in many ways but being able to change the view layout/type would be great.

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More context, I find myself creating a view and then realizing that a different layout may be more useful.

This isn’t necessarily a must have as I understand you can just create multiple views (task table, task list, task board etc.) but I guess I’m curious to hear more about why the feature is setup this way, is there a difference/limitation in how Fibery and Notion manage views?

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I think the big difference between Fibery and Notion with respect to views is that Notion is rather limited to views of a single database, whereas (some of) Fibery views allow visualisation of data that spans multiple databases.
For example, if you have a (Fibery) list view which shows a hierarchy of Projects and their respective underlying Tasks, it’s not immediately obvious how this would get converted to a board view. Should the cards be the Tasks, or the Projects? (board view does not directly support a hierarchy in the way a list view does). Maybe the board should show Task cards with the Projects as rows. Or maybe the Projects should be the columns.
Similarly, if you have a table view of Tasks, grouped by Project, how should this become a timeline?
Overall, the different ‘superpowers’ of each type of view means that they aren’t necessarily interchangeable.

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Righttttt I was mainly thinking in terms of a single database/view and overlooked the scenario of displaying multiple databases in a view.

Your explanation makes sense and I can see how that it’s more complicated in the Fibery scenario.

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Maybe an implementation of this could be limited to views that only are for a single database.

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Or perhaps the “change view” needs to be a bit more of a “weighty” approach more like “convert view” which would allow for showing what can be migrated over to the chosen new view type, what would be lost, and potentially allow options for the user in how certain conversion choices might be made.

That said it also makes me wonder what the advantages of switching view types are that you want to get from Notion. Is it e.g. preserving the Filter/Sorting settings? If so perhaps something more directly targeted at that would be good. Now that I think of it maybe this could be a variation of the “Duplicate” function which lets you either Duplicate the entire View or just copy certain aspects of it and choose a new View type. :thinking: