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

**URL:** https://community.fibery.io/t/done-replace-all-references-or-convert-to-type/982
**Category:** Ideas & Features
**Created:** [September 16, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-replace-all-references-or-convert-to-type/982 "2020-09-16T01:55:37Z")
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### Author: ![B\_Sp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@B\_Sp](https://community.fibery.io/u/B_Sp)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-replace-all-references-or-convert-to-type/982/8 "2021-04-14T03:38:53Z")

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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.

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