# Grid view doesn't show any related entities in Smart Folder **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugs & Issues\ **Tags:** table-view\ **Created:** [October 6, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257 "2023-10-06T18:30:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/1 "2023-10-06T18:30:55Z")
**Grid** and **List** view both fail to display INDIRECTLY related entities in a Smart Folder, which are correctly displayed by a Table view. * * * > **`Client`** _one:many\>_ **`Project`** _one:many\>_ **`Page`** _one:one\>_ **`Page Workflow`** **This is the `Page Workflow` relation in `Page`:** > ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/d/d261c14444ae9f676c650213c823b45cbc1577d7.png) * * * **Views are defined inside this Smart Folder:** > ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/a/a112c5f7691770739669aeb0d8ff1a1db2bae097.png) * * * **Table views can find the indirectly-related `Page Workflow` entities (related to Page, which is related to Project):** > ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/2/27a61bdd60e6164447bf40872c8bf1ff242dbda2.png) * * * **But Grid view cannot:** > ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/0/08b31704e264fa677210a852393cb752da995968.png) * * * **Nor can List view:** > ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/4/489dbc0137ed4a65e089344d9dec2a377c308909.png) ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/2 "2023-10-06T18:43:22Z")
What does the filter setting show? ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/3 "2023-10-06T18:50:43Z")
Smart Folder filters: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/e/e9ff9be3d2ab05dc77cf01701fada588489f2c25.png) Note that Grid view can display (directly-related) `Page`s, but not indirectly-related `Page Workflow`s. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/4 "2023-10-06T20:40:26Z")
I meant the view filters (= context filters) ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/5 "2023-10-06T22:08:52Z")
> [@Chr1sG](#): > > I meant the view filters (= context filters) None defined ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/6 "2023-10-06T22:31:33Z")
If the views are in a smart folder, they will have context filters automatically applied. Click the funnel for each view and see what is shown. ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/7 "2023-10-06T23:39:30Z")
Oh, yeah, this is messed up – here is where the Table is getting its records from: > ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/3/3f42f8c81c98e091016c8ed9eea55a58557ddfce.png) This really should be `Page Workflows via Pages from (Project)`. As should the Grid and List as well. * * * The Grid view that finds nothing: > ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/f/fa1ccf6c6742204c48cdad124b28fc69a18eaba0.png) * * * Same with the List view: > ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/d/dd076261e6bcea93dc11a219b04deae0bbcb751e.png) * * * I believe I complained before about this before, loooong ago. It makes no sense for this path selection to be automatic with no possibility of manual override, especially if it can’t get it right 😕 Even if it _could_ get it “right”, we might still want to use a different relation path. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 6:43am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/8 "2023-10-07T06:43:00Z")
> [@Matt\_Blais](#): > > It makes no sense for this path selection to be automatic with no possibility of manual override, especially if it can’t get it right Click on the white text part and you can change the path to whichever you prefer (subject to certain constraints - see [here](https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Context-Views-20)) ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/9 "2023-10-08T15:56:36Z")
> [@Chr1sG](#): > > Click on the white text part and you can change the path OK, that’s a step forward, but not much good if you have over a thousand of options that you can’t read: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/e/e45a850daadb9e66be3e9f521bdd1f186f276b40.png) If we could see the full text of these lines, we might have a chance here 😟 I complained about this problem before - [Smart Folder View Filter is beyond unworkable](https://community.fibery.io/t/smart-folder-view-filter-is-beyond-unworkable/4308) ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/10 "2023-10-08T16:40:54Z")
Well, the number of options is determined by the number of possible ‘routes’ between the two dbs, and in a highly connected workspace this can be many. Based on what you wrote earlier, you would in principle be looking for ‘Page Workflows via Pages from Projects’, so the colours should be able to clue you in. However, I think you might not find the route you want, because of the constraints mentioned in the page I linked to previously. ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/11 "2023-10-08T17:00:11Z")
It would be helpful if these routes routes were sorted by complexity (most-direct routes first). In a vast majority of cases, one of the most-direct routes is likely what someone is looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/12 "2023-10-09T06:35:31Z")
> [@Matt\_Blais](#): > > It would be helpful if these routes routes were sorted by complexity (most-direct routes first). AFAIK that is the intended behaviour. ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/13 "2023-10-09T15:16:40Z")
In this situation: - `Meeting Notes` _has-a_ `Client` (to-one relation) - `Task` _has-a_ `Client` (lookup) It is simple to associate each `Task` with its `Meeting Notes` via the `Task`’s `Client`. But apparently not the other way around – i.e. in a `Meeting Notes` entity, in an embedded Table of `Task`s, I want the context filter to produce the collection of all `Task`s related to the common `Client`. I was expecting the Fibery context filter to include the simple, direct option: “Tasks from Client”, because there is a common `Client` – but that option is not in the list 🤔 In fact, the context filter does not offer _any_ options that use the `Client` field . ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/14 "2023-10-09T15:58:26Z")
Based on what you have said, the relationship path between Meeting and Task would seem to be `Task ← Client → Meeting` which is not be supported because of the constraints discussed earlier. However, if I have understood your situation correctly, you could create a lookup in the Task db to get the Meetings from the Client. In this case, you would have an option to context filter Tasks as follows: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/7/7dc364d0cdba5d0055c2f73fcb13c33e462dd94c.png) That’s because there would now be a direct path `Task → Meetings` ---
**Author:** ![mdubakov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/mdubakov/32/10_2.png) [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/grid-view-doesnt-show-any-related-entities-in-smart-folder/5257/15 "2023-11-23T12:14:10Z")