# FRQ: Database Inheritance

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/frq-database-inheritance/4528>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [June 1, 2023, 4:44am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/frq-database-inheritance/4528 "2023-06-01T04:44:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/frq-database-inheritance/4528/6 "2023-06-06T17:44:56Z")

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> [@njyo](#):
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> For certain types of databases (i.e. Tasks, People, Organisations, Tools) I would like to have the ability to inherit/extend databases.

Yes, we need this too.

> [@njyo](#):
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> One massive database with lots of irrelevant fields, which also confuses

That’s our current set-up for contact. Which is really confusing. We have really huge databases (example: our contact database) with a lot of hidden fields (which we only use in automations/formulas). But if a user wants to create a form or want to add a value in a table, they will see all fields. The list is quite insane 😅

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> [@njyo](#):
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> Multiple extension databases: One `Person` database and then `Person-Staff`, `Person-Contact`, etc. that maybe automatically connects some entries.

This is our setup in a lot of other databases. Also quite confusing since we need a lot of workarounds to create the overall database/views.

And it’s really limiting the table views since you can only choose 1 database in a table. So I can’t say “Column 1-3 are Database A and column 4-6 are Database B”

> [@njyo](#):
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> The lookup does not allow me to fill data. So any view only shows the lookup

Exactly, this is also why we can’t use lookups.

> [@njyo](#):
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> Forms do not allow me to set the lookups either

And automations/buttons + formulas also not.

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