# Creating several entities at once

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/creating-several-entities-at-once/6570>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [August 29, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/creating-several-entities-at-once/6570 "2024-08-29T13:16:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![gomocoop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/gomocoop/32/6349_2.png) [@gomocoop](https://community.fibery.io/u/gomocoop)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/creating-several-entities-at-once/6570/1 "2024-08-29T13:16:48Z")

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Hello!

I need to create 168 different entities, each one with a different name. What’s the best way to do this?

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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:** [August 29, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/creating-several-entities-at-once/6570/2 "2024-08-29T13:18:12Z")

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random names you need?

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**Author:** ![gomocoop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/gomocoop/32/6349_2.png) [@gomocoop](https://community.fibery.io/u/gomocoop)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/creating-several-entities-at-once/6570/3 "2024-08-29T13:23:12Z")

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Nope! I have a lists of the names, should I send it here?

The 10 first ones are:

A - SEG - 06:00 às 09:00  
A - SEG - 08:30 às 11:30  
A - SEG - 11:00 às 14:00  
A - SEG - 13:30 às 16:30  
A - SEG - 16:00 às 19:00  
A - SEG - 18:30 às 21:30  
A - TER - 06:00 às 09:00  
A - TER - 08:30 às 11:30  
A - TER - 11:00 às 14:00  
A - TER - 13:30 às 16:30

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**Author:** ![gomocoop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/gomocoop/32/6349_2.png) [@gomocoop](https://community.fibery.io/u/gomocoop)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/creating-several-entities-at-once/6570/4 "2024-08-29T13:24:48Z")

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AND there are fields inside the entities that I would love if they could be also automatically filled with the informations from the title…

Example

Name: A - SEG - 06:00 às 09:00

Week: A  
Weekday: Monday  
Shift time: 06:00 - 09:00

It’s a database of volunteer work shifts…

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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:** [August 29, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/creating-several-entities-at-once/6570/5 "2024-08-29T13:26:23Z")

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The fastes way is to paste this list to rich edit field of any entity, make it an unordered list, select it all and create new entities from it

[https://the.fibery.io/@public/User\_Guide/Guide/Rich-Text-28/anchor=Create-many-entities-from-a-list--2e8fa7e3-2ad1-4ab5-9bfc-74e4add720c3](https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Rich-Text-28/anchor=Create-many-entities-from-a-list--2e8fa7e3-2ad1-4ab5-9bfc-74e4add720c3)

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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:** [August 29, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/creating-several-entities-at-once/6570/6 "2024-08-29T13:27:02Z")

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…or copy paste into a table view  
…or use CSV import

Then use automations (run once) to populate other fields using inference from the name field

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**Author:** ![gomocoop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/gomocoop/32/6349_2.png) [@gomocoop](https://community.fibery.io/u/gomocoop)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/creating-several-entities-at-once/6570/7 "2024-08-29T13:30:11Z")

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Oh! I want to explore CSV import! Gonna try out here and will get back here if I have problems.

Thank you guys! =)

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**Author:** ![gomocoop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/gomocoop/32/6349_2.png) [@gomocoop](https://community.fibery.io/u/gomocoop)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/creating-several-entities-at-once/6570/8 "2024-08-29T14:10:49Z")

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Hello!

I manage to do it with CSV! Thank you.

Now I wanted to have a field of recurrent time. For example, for the shift:

Week: A  
Weekday: Monday  
Shift time: 06:00 - 09:00

The shift time field it’s a date time range field. So right now it’s Sep 02, 2024 06:00 → Sep 02, 2024 09:00. Is there a way to generate a “pure” time range out of this? In a way that

Week: A  
Weekday: Monday  
Shift time: 06:00 - 09:00

and

Week: C  
Weekday: Wednesday  
Shift time: 06:00 - 09:00

would have the same time range?

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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:** [August 29, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/creating-several-entities-at-once/6570/9 "2024-08-29T14:16:38Z")

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> [@gomocoop](#):
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> Is there a way to generate a “pure” time range out of this?

There’s no data type in Fibery for a time (without a date) so probably the only workaround is to use two (integer?) number fields to represent the start and end hours (if you need to calculate based on them).
