# Change view layout/type post creation (table -\> list, list -\> board) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Created:** [May 30, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/change-view-layout-type-post-creation-table-list-list-board/8891 "2025-05-30T14:02:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Dejaegher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/ryan_dejaegher/32/8050_2.png) [@Ryan\_Dejaegher](https://community.fibery.io/u/Ryan_Dejaegher)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/change-view-layout-type-post-creation-table-list-list-board/8891/1 "2025-05-30T14:02:47Z")
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. ![PixelSnap 2025-05-30 at 09.56.52@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/1/1fe4d5cc92f43d441489e063183817da15cfff4b.png) 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? ---
**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:** [May 30, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/change-view-layout-type-post-creation-table-list-list-board/8891/2 "2025-05-30T14:45:39Z")
> [@Ryan\_Dejaegher](#): > > 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? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Dejaegher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/ryan_dejaegher/32/8050_2.png) [@Ryan\_Dejaegher](https://community.fibery.io/u/Ryan_Dejaegher)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/change-view-layout-type-post-creation-table-list-list-board/8891/3 "2025-05-30T15:02:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![tycecycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@tycecycle](https://community.fibery.io/u/tycecycle)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/change-view-layout-type-post-creation-table-list-list-board/8891/4 "2025-05-30T21:11:29Z")
Maybe an implementation of this could be limited to views that only are for a single database. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/change-view-layout-type-post-creation-table-list-list-board/8891/5 "2025-05-30T23:03:39Z")
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. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![RonMakesSystems](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/ronmakessystems/32/14122_2.png) [@RonMakesSystems](https://community.fibery.io/u/RonMakesSystems)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/change-view-layout-type-post-creation-table-list-list-board/8891/6 "2025-11-20T14:06:09Z")
Pinging this with the new gallery view incoming. Some of our board views will change over to gallery, but those views are also already embedded in multiple dashboards, some people have it marked as favourite, in whiteboards, etc. Replacing the view will remove all the places the view is referenced. Converting (even if it means it needs to be reconfigured) into a view into a different view type could remove this problem.