# How to create a custom view of Table?

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**Created:** [February 3, 2021, 4:39am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/how-to-create-a-custom-view-of-table/1337 "2021-02-03T04:39:14Z")\
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> [@Matt\_Blais](#):
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> If I correctly understood @mdubakov’s answer above (please correct me if I’m wrong!), then what Fibery is calling “Tables” are really just Views; if you duplicate a “Table” (as shown in Michael’s video answer above) you are just creating another View on the underlying data.

Yes, that is correct. A “table” in this context is a _type_ of “View”, rather than in the traditional database management sense of “container for data”.

> [@Chr1sG](#):
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> I haven’t used Notion much, so can you explain how what they do differs from having multiple table views in Fibery? And of course, how it benefits you. I love learning from other peoples thinking patterns.

This is probably a larger topic than just this specific example since Notion, ClickUp, and probably others have some UI conventions that I find helpful for organizing increasingly large and complex spaces, data structures, visualizations, etc.

So in Notion a database can be created anywhere, and with any one of 6 types of Views: Table, Board, List, Gallery, Timeline, and Calendar. All of these are just views of a database. Only main difference from Fibery here is you create your DB anywhere you want and it lives in the hierarchy, but can be instantiated anywhere else, including _embedding_ into any other page.

Now, you can do like in Fibery and just create a page anywhere in the hierarchy and make it into a given database view. But the nice thing in Notion that helps keep the main nav cleaner _and_ makes it faster to do things is that you can create and select between any of the above 6 types of of views on a single DB “view”. And you can create _as many_ of each type of view as you want and name them. Then simply select between them from a single, er, “view”, a single page in the hierarchy. A GIF probably illustrates this much better than trying to explain.

![notion-db-views](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/c/cecd258e76cdd96f868ccc88142b217acc3a04c5.gif)

Abd Sort and Filter options can be customized per-view, so you get a different sort/filter along with your different view if you want. Thus you could have e.g. 2 List views but with different sort/filter and switch between them _super_ fast. That example is the general kind of thing I find it really handy for vs. Fibery’s separate views approach where I have to create an entire new left-hand nav item just to e.g. switch quickly between two filter or sort setups.

In ClickUp you have something of the opposite problem. What can be represented in the left-hand hierarchical navigation is a bit limited, but there is a whole set of top tabbed navigation for lots of things, some of which I think is useful, some of which just becomes confusing IMO. But the flexibility is nice.

Bottom line is I really like the ability to combine left-hand nav and right-hand nav options to make each one simpler and more focused on its particular area of functionality. I think of left-hand nav as “gross” (or top-level) navigation while right-hand stuff is more specific to the currently open entity/doc/database/whatever.

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