# \[DONE\] Table view Description field / Rich Edit fields in Table View
**URL:** https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383
**Category:** Ideas & Features
**Tags:** table-view
**Created:** [October 25, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383 "2019-10-25T14:00:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Polina\_Zenevich](https://community.fibery.io/u/Polina_Zenevich)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383/21 "2021-06-16T11:51:01Z")
Hi, Arthur!
Finally, Document&Entity sharing are here 🙂
You can check the details [here](https://community.fibery.io/t/changelog-june-3-share-documents-and-entities-performance-improvements-bug-fixes/1686/4)
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### Author:  [@sohee](https://community.fibery.io/u/sohee)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383/22 "2021-07-12T23:57:24Z")
Just want to let you know that I’m also in the queue of waiting for this feature “Enable Rich Text Entity in Table View”. Thanks
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### Author:  [@corey.goss](https://community.fibery.io/u/corey.goss)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383/23 "2021-09-30T15:35:36Z")
This is something that I, too, am very interested. There are a few use cases, the most obvious to me being:
1. Sharing a table of Story and Description both:
- With other Fibery users
- Exporting to CSV/XL to share with non Fibery Users
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### Author:  [@B\_Sp](https://community.fibery.io/u/B_Sp)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383/24 "2021-12-24T18:24:10Z")
Sorry if I missed when this was released, but I just noticed now that you can add “Description” as a column in Table view:
I’m glad to see attention to this need. However, I’d like to still request that the actual text be visible in that field. The solution now allows for you to click that “page” icon and open a window with just a view of the Rich Text field. However, in our case most Rich Text Fields are at the top of an Entity, so this is not really any more helpful than simply clicking “open” at the left of the table.
I had some screenshots in this request that appears to have been deleted:
[https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-more-visible-content-in-table-view-in-particular-rich-text/517/7](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-more-visible-content-in-table-view-in-particular-rich-text/517/7)
and the other posts above where I reference the Coda implementation also show some of this.
In summary, I’d still like to be able to read the contents of those Rich Text fields, or at least the beginnings of them via a snippet of text, when viewing them in Table View.
And just for the sake of the newcomers to this thread (thanks for supporting with votes!) of @corey.goss and @sohee, this request would also help this need:
> [@More "Rich Text" in simple Text Box](https://community.fibery.io/t/more-rich-text-in-simple-text-box/984):
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> I am trying to set up one of the features of both Coda and Notion that I found very useful and would love to be able to do in Fibery - use a “join” entity to show deep info between other entities. Ideally I’d like to be able to type into this Entity within another, for example during meetings. While we are waiting on the visibility of Rich Text fields within Tables and Collections, from this post: I think it would be very helpful to have some more ability in the “Text Box” Field: Ability …
If you could use those smaller fields with more Rich Text options, such as # entity mentions, you’d accomplish something similar.
I do hope you guys are still considering full visibility of the content of Rich Text fields in Table view, as well as in Collections - which is also a requested area.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383/25 "2022-01-09T21:13:48Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Column autofit in table view](https://community.fibery.io/t/column-autofit-in-table-view/2358)
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### Author:  [@4erkas](https://community.fibery.io/u/4erkas)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383/26 "2022-12-22T13:54:37Z")
Up this topic.
My use case:
- project entity
- many fields, connections, etc. inside it
- 2 important fields for stakeholders: status (red, amber, greed) and status update (rich text field).
If I could do easy to read status dashboard, I tried to create table view and show project | status | status update (text) → but gets very unsable.
Would be sooo nice to be able to read the rich text field context from the table view to satisfy this or similar use case!
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### Author:  [@Fab](https://community.fibery.io/u/Fab)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2023, 10:43am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383/27 "2023-05-08T10:43:13Z")
Same here. It feels weird you can preview the _textfield_ and not the _description_:
**Use case**
In a table, I want to quickly scan at a glance the content of the description without having to open each row one by one.
A truncated description would be good enough
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### Author:  [@Yuri\_BC](https://community.fibery.io/u/Yuri_BC)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 12:43am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383/28 "2023-10-19T00:43:04Z")
Related, hoping this will be addressed soon:
> [@Make rich text fields text available in list and board fields](https://community.fibery.io/t/make-rich-text-fields-text-available-in-list-and-board-fields/4732):
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> Currently the rich text fields don’t give information of rich text fields in lists and boards. They show as: [image]. It would be better to show the text in a way that is truncated with a read more link above a specific amount of characters, which can be a setting in the richt text field.
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### Author:  [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383/29 "2024-07-04T12:47:49Z")
Done some time ago
> [@Dec 21, 2023 / christmas\_tree Show Rich text field snippet in views, All comments in one right panel (experimental), Set initial field values via URL parameter on Form View](https://community.fibery.io/t/dec-21-2023-show-rich-text-field-snippet-in-views-all-comments-in-one-right-panel-experimental-set-initial-field-values-via-url-parameter-on-form-view/5571):
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> Christmas is coming and Slow December is approaching its end, but this release is densely packed with new features and improvements. Some of these features are unexpected even by our team, but I hope you will find them useful. heart_eyes Show Rich text field on the Board view and beyond Rich text fields are supported on the board, table, list, and canvas view. There is a special Rich Edit Field Name (Snippet) unit that you can select. This snippet shows first 400 characters of the rich edit f…
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### Author:  [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-table-view-description-field-rich-edit-fields-in-table-view/383/30 "2024-09-19T13:55:07Z")
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