# Fibery Product Report: January 2025
**URL:** https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216
**Category:** News & Announcements
**Created:** [February 5, 2025, 7:24am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216 "2025-02-05T07:24:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/21 "2025-02-06T20:12:56Z")
It’s not currently possible, but we have it as a feature on the roadmap
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Dejaegher](https://community.fibery.io/u/Ryan_Dejaegher)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/22 "2025-02-07T13:28:54Z")
I had similar confusion around the sharing/access for guests.
I remember at one point there was a Guest dropdown option and then it went away.
Adding an email does make it feel like you are inviting them to the workspace vs. just as guest to the current entity
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Dejaegher](https://community.fibery.io/u/Ryan_Dejaegher)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/23 "2025-02-07T13:32:00Z")
I continue to be excited by the whiteboard improvements.
I love Fibery for its structure and whiteboards would let you do structure + unstructured work in the same tool.
@mdubakov with “Whiteboard: Find Text”, is this referring to searching within the active whiteboard, or does this mean the whiteboard text would be searchable from the global search? Similar to finding matches from rich text fields?
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### Author:  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/24 "2025-02-07T13:38:25Z")
> [@Ryan\_Dejaegher](#):
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> Adding an email does make it feel like you are inviting them to the workspace vs. just as guest to the current entity
Well, technically, you _are_ creating a guest user account ‘under-the-hood’ but they will be limited to only seeing entities that are shared with them.
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### Author:  [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/25 "2025-02-07T13:44:43Z")
> [@Ryan\_Dejaegher](#):
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> with “Whiteboard: Find Text”, is this referring to searching within the active whiteboard
This, it is like find text on a whiteboard itself
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### Author:  [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/26 "2025-02-07T13:54:44Z")
> [@Michael\_Ichter](#):
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> removing “My items” from the “All items” tab would resolve this.
We experimented with this idea and unexpectedly liked it very much, will be included into next release. Thank you @Michael_Ichter
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### Author:  [@bgasiorowski](https://community.fibery.io/u/bgasiorowski)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/27 "2025-02-11T07:21:14Z")
> [@mdubakov](#):
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> Guests are a flop now with barely any usage. Why? We don’t know: there’s not much negative feedback, or any feedback, for that matter. This question requires some user research.
In current State Guests vs Observers makes no real difference. If Guests should be a useful feature - we would need them to be able to perform ‘more’ actions on Entity like:
- Add New Entity
- Use Action Buttons
- Be able to ‘Add New’ Related Entities from Entity view (i.e. Tasks \> Add Time Log)
Maybe I’m not skilled enough but for now I haven’t found any reasonable workaround for my contractors to add Timelogs. The only way is they have to be paid users. Am I correct?
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### Author:  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2025, 8:58am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/28 "2025-02-11T08:58:15Z")
> [@bgasiorowski](#):
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> Use Action Buttons
Guests can use action buttons, but only on entities for which they have been granted update capability.
> [@bgasiorowski](#):
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> I haven’t found any reasonable workaround for my contractors to add Timelogs. The only way is they have to be paid users. Am I correct?
Correct. Guest can not be granted capabilities at the whole database level (which ‘Create’ is).
If someone can Create, View, Update (incl pressing buttons) and Comment etc. then wouldn’t it be fair that they are a paid user?
Or in other words, what should be the differentiation between a Guest and a Member?
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### Author:  [@bgasiorowski](https://community.fibery.io/u/bgasiorowski)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/29 "2025-02-12T10:57:48Z")
If the button is Add Task - guests can’t use it. So the only ugly way to add a task is through Form which I can’t „pin” to Client workspace sidebar…
Regarding paid users vs guests … well guests can’t access Spaces
Or at least be cheaper paid users because they’ll mainly do 3 actions - create entity, comment, attach file
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### Author:  [@RonMakesSystems](https://community.fibery.io/u/RonMakesSystems)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 11:08am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/30 "2025-02-12T11:08:15Z")
This is also a roadblock I have faced a few times. The fact that guests can not create entities that are linked to their shared entity makes things tricky. The only work around is making public forms. But its a bigger hassle because then if you want it it to be linked to the entity you need to send with a custom url with hidden field (which is actually worse for security). Either allowing guests to fill internal forms, or allowing them to create sub-entities.
I see what you mean that there needs to be a differentiation, I would say that the big difference is that guests can not see views and the sidebar as the rest do. They have entity level access (plus the things that are linked). They can only link their related entity to a the entity they are shared to.
While this does allow for abuse (automatically share all entities, or have the whole workspace linked to a top-level entity and only invite guests), I do see those as malicious and not intended behaviour. Something that can be flagged in TOS maybe? Or that every paid user can invite 3 guests?
Guests are incredibly valuable as a sharing mechanism, and I feel like it’s being nerfed right now just to make people pay for more members. While the people we’re working with are actually not workspace members! They are guests! External people who are collaborating. Think about clients, manufacturers, editors, volunteers helping on a project. And most importantly that they can’t see each others email addresses.
TLDR: Guests are not just less powerful members, but a powerful collaboration mechanism. If that means limit the number of guests to avoid abuse? Or have guests paid? Not sure. We don’t want workspace members, just guests that can create things within their shared entity. I hope that makes sense…?
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### Author:  [@antoniokov](https://community.fibery.io/u/antoniokov)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/31 "2025-02-12T11:42:43Z")
@bgasiorowski @RonMakesSystems
Thank you for your feedback!
We’ll think harder about the problem of limited entity creation: e.g. create a Task but only in the shared Project. Now it’s all or nothing with Submitters on the Database level.
Perhaps, we can find a way to include the capability to create child entities into Entity-level access. Then it will be automatically available to Guests.
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Dejaegher](https://community.fibery.io/u/Ryan_Dejaegher)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/32 "2025-02-12T11:59:14Z")
@mdubakov again gotta give props to Fibery and the team.
This feels like a hard/tricky problem for the team. I appreciate that you continue to iterate and think about the problem.
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### Author:  [@bgasiorowski](https://community.fibery.io/u/bgasiorowski)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/33 "2025-02-12T15:41:52Z")
I totally support your post! Guest could be a powerful feature but it needs some buff. I’ve already said I don’t even expect guests to be totally free, I could even pay but this feature needs some love 😉
For my team - it’s a blocker - contractors or clients not being able to Submit new requests - is a no go ☹
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### Author:  [@helloitse](https://community.fibery.io/u/helloitse)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/34 "2025-02-12T17:52:51Z")
I’m excited about what’s coming!
> [@mdubakov](#):
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> ? Remove Hidden Spaces
Fair warning: I will riot.
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### Author:  [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/35 "2025-02-13T09:03:48Z")
> [@helloitse](#):
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> Fair warning: I will riot.
Let’s see how much you will need it when you will have Folders on the top level and can put spaces inside Folders 🙂
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### Author:  [@RonMakesSystems](https://community.fibery.io/u/RonMakesSystems)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/fibery-product-report-january-2025/8216/36 "2025-03-25T15:47:26Z")
> [@mdubakov](#):
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> and maybe even _Find Duplicates by specific Field: Email, URL, etc_
We’ve been using a many-to-many self relating auto-link to find duplicates of this. It works quite well! The only thing thats a bit weird is that it makes for two identical fields, and it shows “self” in the relation which is a bit weird, but it works! In our case we want to keep the multiples to see all applications from the same email address. We could set it up a bit differently, to fix this, but just wanting to point out that auto linking currently works to find duplicates. Just a thought!
Another thought is that if there are two panels open of the same type, adding an action button to “Merge into right” or “Merge into left”. As right now I’ve had issues where I try to merge into itself, and need to try a few times until I get the right one merged. (Only the name is shown in the list, and usually the name is the same…)
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