# Inline reference - card view

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-reference-card-view/5574>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [December 21, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-reference-card-view/5574 "2023-12-21T21:25:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![cannibalflea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/cannibalflea/32/318_2.png) [@cannibalflea](https://community.fibery.io/u/cannibalflea)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/inline-reference-card-view/5574/1 "2023-12-21T21:25:56Z")

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There have been some discussions in the past of having more options for how inline references in rich text and documents are displayed, e.g.:

> [@\[DONE\] Customize Fields in Inline Entities in Rich Text Boxes](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-customize-fields-in-inline-entities-in-rich-text-boxes/1283/10):
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> I was thinking about inline references in the context of blocks and I thought it would be worth it to bump this thread up again and hopefully get it tagged as related to “blocks” and linked to the block-based rewrite of rich text fields [[IN DEV] Migrate Entity View to Blocks](https://community.fibery.io/t/in-dev-migrate-entity-view-to-blocks/2005). Current State As discussed in the thread above fibery currently shows inline entities in a very particular/fixed way: [image] While the inline reference is quite powerful, the inability to customize it is a real paint p…

Some of these ideas have been implemented (and request closed). However, some of the ideas related to [block views of entities](https://community.fibery.io/t/done-customize-fields-in-inline-entities-in-rich-text-boxes/1283/10#block-view-of-entities-5) haven’t advanced far.

I wanted to add that being able to display these references as “card” blocks in some instances, would be a really useful and far easier to read and understand than having everything in one line (in some instances). Some examples that came to my mind is the ability to include a contact card in a document or a card for a product within a client document.

I know this will require a way of defining and customizing the layout of the cards as well as an ability to choose between the line or card view (or better yet a number of admin-defined templates). But I think it would really improve usability and would not require users to click through to the entity view to get some basic information.