In some cases I’ve created something as the wrong type but didn’t realise why for a while, after having referenced it in a few places. One solution here would be to create the entity as the correct type, and then manually replace all references to it. A bit painful. Would it be possible to click on a type and say “replace all references” with another entity? I know that converting to another type is a bit more complex, since if the fields don’t match up or there are relations with it, that would be tough. But could be another solution even if lossy. My assumption is that replacing references is easier.

Implemented and released today [image] March 5, 2026 / see_no_evil_monkey Hide Entity Views with rules, Specify which Entity View to open by default for a user, Validation rules on Create Changelog see_no_evil_monkey Hide Entity Views based on rules You can now hide specific Entity Views based on rules. This allows you to control which views are visible depending on logged user fields values or entity fields values. To enable Hide Entity View rules, click Views on entity view → … near view name → Set up rules. [image] In many setups, the same entity is used by different teams and across different workflow stages. Over time this leads to problems like: too many tabs on an entity, Views…

I have also had a frequent need to convert Types, as discussed here: [image] [DONE] Convert Entity to another Type Ideas & Features Hey, I just wanted to add one more point of context to this feature. I realize there are complexities given the mapping around different Types, but it is a need that arises a lot, that’s why I think Jira has a complex, but no question well-thought out, process around this. What I wanted to mention is that this is also a downside of Notion and Coda, so again an opportunity to get out in front of them. With Notion in fact, you will lose all relations and properties, and it happens without pract… I’ve responded to myself 4x so you can see this is something I could really use! If your request here for Replacing all References is an easier way to get this done, that’s great. Either way hoping we can get this shortly…

Yeah @B_Sp I do think that would be a cool feature for sure! Thinking more about references themselves: In some cases I’ve realised not only was the initial type the wrong choice, but I’d now rather start over with the correct type’s fields than try to do an auto-merge. Here replacing references is probably the most awkward part of the transition even if doing it all manually is right Replacing references works in non-entity contexts: if I have decided a table shouldn’t exist any longer, and only the board view for example, I may want to replace links to the table with links to the board. Or maybe a document is now more suitably an entity or vice-versa: then we’d still want to reference the new thing For these reasons (and because replacing references should hopefully be much lighter weight!) I’d like to see this as a standalone feature too as well as hopefully a type mover!

It sounds like what you’re asking for, most generally speaking, is a way to find all references to one thing, and replace them with something else (generally a reference to a different thing)? I wonder if this could be rolled into a general search-and-replace function, with the replacement of link to one entity for another just being a special case of that. None of these tools have search+replace as far as I know, and it could be super beneficial…

Just following up on this given the recent first pass at convert-type. Since then, I’ve noticed a common use-case: collapsing or combining two entities. I think in general it would be difficult to automate this process. But the most annoying part of this for me is replacing the references. So if I have feature A and feature B, and I realise they’re not different enough to be two separate entities, I want to combine them just to be feature A (or some new title). Typically I’ll copy over the description, make some edits etc. Change whatever other fields might need some changing. But for the references, I then have to dig through all references to B and manually edit them to A. Is there some easy thing I’m missing here?

Interesting. I don’t know how common a need it is for others, but I have occasional instances of this myself. Once again I can envision a nice UI for this, similar to the CSV import, which allowed you to select one of 3 ways of handling field merging (not all of which might be available for every field type). So you’d have: Value from Entity A Value from Entity B Concatenate Discard (maybe, e.g. in the case of comments if they no longer seem to apply to the resulting merged entity) Concatenate would only be available for fields where it would work/make sense, I suppose. So in the case of a Text field, obviously it would work. Same with Rich Text. For single select, of course it would not make sense… And of course the included fields would encompass references and comments (optionally). Anyway, such functionality could certainly be useful, but how much value vs. dev time? I don’t know.

The “replace references” functionality would be a small subset of such a workflow, but would be fairly useful by itself, both for merging entities, and potentially for messier conversions. I agree with you that there would be some use in the full-scale merging, but may not be worth the trade-off (of dev time). I don’t think however that means “replace-references” shouldn’t be done! I am considering implementing some sort of custom replace-references function myself, which should be manageable through the API, but selfishly would love it to be done (with better UI) on the Fibery side

I agree with this and you are talking about some more advanced ways to relate two Entities that I would really advocate for. There are numerous discussions in the community around aspects of this, sorry I don’t have time to find the references, but off the top of my head: Converting an Entity into an Entity within another Type, with full mapping options, and other options like “maintain references” and “copy comments” and other advanced copying Linking An entity to a newly created entity that would copy over much of the original entity’s data, but be in another Type Your request to merge two related entities into one Full tracking of the history trail of the connection being made between the two Entities: in the new one, info that it originated with the previous one; auto-write to comments about the “conversion” from the originating entity, etc. I would have great use of this, and I advocate for dev time to be spend to build out sophisticated capability within Fibery to move Entities in various ways between Types, and to merge them if need be. I think this is going to be essential down the road due to the flexibility of Fibery and constant need to tweak set-ups and teams’ needs evolve.

[image] colman: if I have decided a table shouldn’t exist any longer, and only the board view for example, I may want to replace links to the table with links to the board Just FWIW I have occasionally deleted a view when I have realised that an alternative visualisation would be better, and then gone on to discover that I have unwittingly broken the references to that view elsewhere. Even without automatic reference conversion, it would be nice if all views/documents had a way to show where they were referenced (like is the case for entities) so that I can see what I might be breaking. Also, I think if/when it becomes possible to embed as well as mention a view/document, this facility will become even more necessary.

By “references” you mean reference in Rich Edit fields? Like highlighted and linked text?

Sorry, I suppose I meant #mentions in rich text fields and documents. [image] For entities, I can check the references section to see what impact any changes (incl deletion) might have, but there’s no way at the moment of knowing if a view/document is mentioned elsewhere.

[DONE] Replace All References (or convert to type?)

Ideas & Features

mdubakov March 5, 2026, 1:25pm 20

Implemented and released today

Topic		Replies	Views
Convert & Delete/Replace Entity preserving references Ideas & Features search , rich-text	15	723	March 5, 2026
[DONE] Convert Entity to another Type Ideas & Features	15	3886	September 1, 2023
Cloning an entity and re-mapping where it is mentioned Fibery Showcase references	0	135	September 2, 2024
[DONE] Convert entities of one Type to another Type Ideas & Features	10	2347	April 18, 2021
CHANGELOG: April 14 / Duplicate entity, Audit Log for all users, Convert entity improvements Changelog	24	2338	June 11, 2021

[DONE] Replace All References (or convert to type?)

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