Embedded views are really awesome but today we cannot embed views with a context filter from a Smart Folder. One of our use case is using embedded views in documents that act as dashboards for all views related to a specific team. Those views are created once in a smart folder listing all teams. Ea…

Out of curiosity, what are the views you need in the ‘dashboard’? What are the reasons why the entity view for each Team is unable to function as a dashboard, given that views for relation fields can be quite highly customised? I am not suggesting that your need is not valid, just trying to dig in…

Each team has weekly meetings that are quite structured. Each phase of the meetings are supported by one or several views involving different entities. Those views have different purpose and we can’t use a multi-entity view like boards or list has it quickly becomes unreadable. To avoid to many bac…

[image] julien.erny: Each phase of the meetings are supported by one or several views involving different entities. I assume these are entities from dbs related to the Team db. Each relation on the entity view supports multiple views, so instead of clicking through the views in the left menu…

That might have been an acceptable workaround if we had multiple entity views for a DB, not a single global view ( Individual Layouts for a node, hide fields etc ). As it stands, we cannot use the team entity view for the meeting purpose as it is way too cluttered by other fields that are necessary in…

Got it, thanks. [image] julien.erny: Also the entity view offer much less capacity to format and document than the document with embedded views. Since entity views can include rich text fields, is it primarily the ability to easily interleave text blocks and view blocks that makes a document…

Since entity views can include rich text fields, is it primarily the ability to easily interleave text blocks and view blocks that makes a document preferable? Yes and something else: if I have a new team and I want to “document” the entity view with some rich text fields, either I have to enter …

Context Views can be embedded into text now [image] April 6, 2023 / Relation filters, breadcrumbs in search, back-references in Documents Changelog raised_hand Relation filters [image (8)] Instead of sifting through an entire Database when linking one Entity t…

[DONE] Embedding views with Smart Folder context

Ideas & Features

mdubakov April 7, 2023, 10:00am 8

Context Views can be embedded into text now

Topic		Replies	Views
In embedded Views, allow Filtering on Relation fields for "Is this entity" Ideas & Features	12	516	September 29, 2023
[DONE] Embedded Context Views into Documents Ideas & Features blocks	5	492	October 4, 2024
Apply a filter to a document with embedded views Get Help	4	65	June 30, 2025
Allow embed of smart folder / smart folder views Ideas & Features context-empire	0	17	August 18, 2025
Views are a little confusing right now	26	220	September 29, 2025

[DONE] Embedding views with Smart Folder context

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