# Migrate Entity View to Blocks

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/migrate-entity-view-to-blocks/2005>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Tags:** blocks\
**Created:** [September 13, 2021, 8:01am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/migrate-entity-view-to-blocks/2005 "2021-09-13T08:01:12Z")\
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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 11, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/migrate-entity-view-to-blocks/2005/35 "2021-12-11T22:32:10Z")

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I totally understand this explanation and design decision and know this is a massive task with multiple goals.

> [@mdubakov](#):
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> We have a feeling that it will not bring enough benefits, but will take much more time to implement.

However, I do still wonder how you are planning to address the issue of block references and transclusion. I think this is the major advantage of every paragraph/heading/bullet/image/etc. is a block approach that roam/innos/other tools use, where you are able to arbitrarily and any point in the future reference a deeply nested set of text or lists without having to first break it up:

> [@mdubakov](#):
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> To solve granularity problem, we will make block split easy, so if you discover than some part of a text is a separate thought, you select it and create a new block with a shortcut or a single click.

I also don’t understand how the proposed breaking up would actually work and what the ramifications are. For example, how do you break out a subset of items in the third layer of a bulleted list without all the bullets getting indented back. It also seems like a lot of effort to just be able to reference those few bullets in another piece of text. From a UI perspective, I am afraid that this would also be quite ugly as there would be texts and lists broken up in all sorts of ways. I am also afraid of what this break-up process does to existing links.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/1/11fac286de8b4d90e212a3e7864aa6397080727a.png)

I believe transclusion and block references should be one of the important outcome of this massive effort around blocks. Even if you can’t do it right now, I think it is important to have the foundation to achieve it in the future.

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