# Inline formulas
**URL:** https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580
**Category:** Ideas & Features
**Tags:** rich-text
**Created:** [November 22, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580 "2022-11-22T00:10:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Sarah\_Arminta](https://community.fibery.io/u/Sarah_Arminta)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/1 "2022-11-22T00:10:06Z")
Does Fibery have inline formulas (like Coda?)
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### Author:  [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/2 "2022-11-22T01:17:35Z")
Not yet, but it should!
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### Author:  [@Mathieu\_24](https://community.fibery.io/u/Mathieu_24)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/3 "2024-10-03T14:19:31Z")
- link entity → take property → for dynamical number for example
- hide entity name to have only a number/value, a small effect, backgroud or other to differentiate
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### Author:  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/4 "2024-10-03T14:45:28Z")
Not sure I understand what you mean. Can you explain more, maybe with a screen grabs or sketches
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### Author:  [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/5 "2024-10-03T20:17:43Z")
I could be off-base so this might all be off-topic. 😄 That said I believe what they might want is something like an in-line field display from a linked entity, which is something I’ve wanted before (and which I believe Coda can do, and is very powerful). Right now when you link to an entity A: You can’t _not_ display the name, B: the displayed field contents/values are the same for _every_ link to that type of Entity/Database. The latter makes a lot of sense in general, and the former somewhat too. But it _would_ be great if there was some other way of linking/referencing an Entity in-line with more power/flexibility as far as what data is drawn from that Entity.
So for a simple (and perhaps not very compelling, but at least functional) example I am writing a report document to share with my team at the end of the month. I have a Sprint Entity that counts all Tasks in Done state. Normally I would just put a placeholder like “We completed XX tasks in our sprint this month, good job!” or whatever. Then at the end of the month before I share it, I go and update that value manually. What if I could just link to #sprint-abc and select to only display the “Tasks Completed” field? It would display like any other Field in a Linked Entity does now, but for this _one_ instance it would only display that one Field Value, and it would of course update dynamically as the Entity itself changes.
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### Author:  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/6 "2024-10-03T20:33:58Z")
Your example sounds a lot like [this](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580), right?
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### Author:  [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/7 "2024-10-03T20:57:18Z")
Yes, similar, but not necessarily the same. That’s in-line _formulas_, which Coda can do and essentially supports the feature request here (as I see it), but also a lot more. I guess I’d consider that one to be a parent feature of this one in a sense, in that you could implement this one with the functionality of that one, but this here could be a smaller-scoped request (or maybe not, I don’t know how the code works). Also I could be totally wrong about this one. 😅
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### Author:  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/8 "2024-10-03T21:00:14Z")
Look forward to hearing what @Mathieu_24 has to say 🙂
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### Author:  [@Mathieu\_24](https://community.fibery.io/u/Mathieu_24)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 7:24am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/9 "2024-10-04T07:24:41Z")
Yes, that’s it. Like Coda.
I love fibery really powerful but still some limitations on documents block us / formula in doc.
Example: insert a column formula from an entity.
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### Author:  [@Mathieu\_24](https://community.fibery.io/u/Mathieu_24)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 7:30am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/10 "2024-10-04T07:30:32Z")
Yes its same. Or possibility hide entity name
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### Author:  [@mdubakov](https://community.fibery.io/u/mdubakov)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 7:30am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/11 "2024-10-04T07:30:36Z")
> [@Mathieu\_24](#):
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> Example: insert a column formula from an entity.
Coincidentally, we had a discussion about this feature last week, but demand is low, like 3-5 requests in the last 3 years, so not a high priority for us so far… Implementation also has some problems due to permissions/access.
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### Author:  [@drew](https://community.fibery.io/u/drew)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2024, 2:02am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/12 "2024-12-10T02:02:27Z")
☝ Upvoted. Coming from Coda, this is the #1 thing I miss. (Chris knows.) Though I’d be thrilled to have ‘simple’ _field_ insertion in the meanwhile [if not full-blown formula insertion] anywhere/everywhere. I’m trying to build dynamic modular docs/interfaces at a granular level - initially internally, and eventually externally. 😏 Fibery is freaking amazing.
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### Author:  [@interr0bangr](https://community.fibery.io/u/interr0bangr)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/13 "2024-12-10T13:55:28Z")
I would love to be have fields that are contextually filtered by the entity they’re being viewed in. Is that what everyone means by an inline formula?
@Oshyan’s sprint example is exactly the type of thing we’re trying to do so
If so, I’ll happily put a vote towards it! [I made a similar request here that should maybe be merged?](https://community.fibery.io/t/formula-fields-that-are-filtered-by-the-context-theyre-viewed-in/6623)
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### Author:  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2024, 10:18am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/14 "2024-12-19T10:18:30Z")
> [@interr0bangr](#):
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> fields that are contextually filtered by the entity they’re being viewed in.
Formula fields _are_ ‘contextually filtered’ by the entity, but not ‘contextually filtered’ by the view, which I think is what you are describing in the topic you linked to.
I think this topic is about displaying (calculated) info within rich text.
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### Author:  [@Eva\_Folch](https://community.fibery.io/u/Eva_Folch)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/15 "2025-08-18T14:00:44Z")
Inline Formula (formulas on canvas) would be amazing!!! I also come from Coda, and I really miss this!
I can have in my dashboard, live counters, for example: how many sales in the month, how many expenses, totals by client, etc…. Everything in one view….
I think once you try it, you cannot go back. It’s one of the main reasons why I switched from Notion to Coda! Super powerful!
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### Author:  [@helloitse](https://community.fibery.io/u/helloitse)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/16 "2025-08-18T15:33:03Z")
It’s worth noting that I would love the feature but never post about it. I’m too busy trying to explore the features you’ve already shipped!
That said, inline formulas are so powerful (and and present performance issues at scale).
Today’s work around looks like a database with two simple columns. One name and one value.
1. Create an automation OR API call that populates the value of one entity with whatever statistic or phrase you need.
2. Mention the entity in Fibery.
3. Configure all mentions of this database to reveal the value.
It does not scale, so it’s better used as a cache of global variables across the workspace.
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### Author:  [@halvorot](https://community.fibery.io/u/halvorot)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2026, 8:14am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/17 "2026-03-06T08:14:49Z")
An awesome feature would be to be able to add a formula “anywhere”, e.g. in a rich text field. Kind of like in Coda where you can do /formula and then set up a formula anywhere.
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### Author:  [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2026, 9:42am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/18 "2026-03-06T09:42:30Z")
This?
> [@Inline formulas](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580):
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> Does Fibery have inline formulas (like Coda?)
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### Author:  [@halvorot](https://community.fibery.io/u/halvorot)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2026, 10:00am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/19 "2026-03-06T10:00:52Z")
Yes, sorry for the duplicate thread. But an inline formula feature would be amazing.
I understand that there are lots of challenges with this, but even with some limitations, a version of inline formulas would be a great addition.
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### Author:  [@helloitse](https://community.fibery.io/u/helloitse)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-formulas/3580/20 "2026-05-08T12:20:30Z")
This feature is great for report generation and dashboarding when info is best presented as a page. Today we use AI for this but that seems helpful only for occasional reporting.
I’ve used it to create a P&L in a document that is filtered by a select variable and is printable (no traditional report can recreate the proper formatting there)
I also think it would enhance the current dashboards by reducing the bulk/bloat of current embedded views.
In my coda business dashboard I could display a sentence at the top. “You have X ongoing projects, Y an outstanding billables and Z open deals.”
Today the options I have are
1. To create one reporting view where all of this information is nested into tabs
2. Three separate report views that are displayed side by side
3. (what I currently am doing) one database called Data where I use automations to compute these values and then display them as a table in a dashboard
I think there are times when the regidity of an embedded view fits the info well. Other times, something lighter weight would be preferable.
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