# July 20, 2023 / Experimental 🥹 new Grid View and 🏛️ Columns Layout in Docs

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**Created:** [July 20, 2023, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/july-20-2023-experimental-new-grid-view-and-columns-layout-in-docs/4818 "2023-07-20T12:46:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 11:04am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/july-20-2023-experimental-new-grid-view-and-columns-layout-in-docs/4818/31 "2023-08-07T11:04:12Z")

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**Leveraging Field Combination in Fibery: Insights from Drupal’s Approach**

**1. Potential Issue in Fibery: Fragmented Data Display**

- Fibery’s default setup I see often results in fragmented information across a single page.
- My temporary solution involves activating a unified field that merges all databases, restricting the display to entities that have a direct relation.
- However, this method falls short when trying to amalgamate fields from diverse entities into a single cell or card.

**2. Drupal’s Approach: Utilizing ‘Global: Custom Text’ and Field Tokens**

- Drupal’s Views module enables the creation of a ‘Global: Custom Text’ field in the views table, which can incorporate field tokens. See also [https://www.drupal.org/project/token](https://www.drupal.org/project/token)
- This allows a single table cell to present a combination of token outputs. For instance, a cell could display a user’s name, email, and last login date all together.

**3. Advantages of Field Tokens**

- Field tokens provide a user-friendly, code-free method for users to customize the output of a field.
- They can be used to display a field in a variety of formats. For example, a date field could be displayed as “July 7, 2023”, “07/07/2023”, or “2023-07-07” depending on the token used.

**4. Suggestion: Enhanced Integration of Field Tokens in Fibery**

- Fibery currently employs tokens within its automation features.
- An improvement could be the introduction of ‘lookup tokens’ in Fibery views, enhancing the adaptability and compactness of the output. For instance, a lookup token could be used to display the name of a related entity directly in a view, without needing to navigate to the entity itself.

**Conclusion**

- Enhancing token integration in Fibery could offer users greater control over entity field displays, addressing a frequent request within the community.
- I am available to provide additional examples or engage in further discussion if needed.

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