# Misleading truncation of nested entities in list view

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/misleading-truncation-of-nested-entities-in-list-view/8813>\
**Category:** Bugs & Issues\
**Created:** [May 18, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/misleading-truncation-of-nested-entities-in-list-view/8813 "2025-05-18T11:42:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Yuri\_BC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/yuri_bc/32/8803_2.png) [@Yuri\_BC](https://community.fibery.io/u/Yuri_BC)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/misleading-truncation-of-nested-entities-in-list-view/8813/1 "2025-05-18T11:42:20Z")

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I find this severe enough to post it as issue.

**Current behavior:**

- List views are by default ‘truncated’ to show a limited amount of entities.
- With more than x items, a button at the bottom shows ‘Show all xx’

**Problem case:**  
When entities are nested in a list view, the list is truncated in an unexpected way:  
The truncation does not take into account the nesting and top level entities in the nesting.

For example:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/2/276e9a67e37d7b668d4473eebfe4031bb08a4a04.png)

The nested list actually has multiple top level entities, but only one top level entity is shown.

I have to click the 'Show all xx" button, and then I see:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/b/b7ea697658ad0a0f08dddb668eeeeeae0a961c75.png)

**Desired behavior:**

First solution:  
By default the list view should display x items, starting with and including the top level items.

Better solution:  
Ideally I would like to propose that a list view by default displays ALL top level entities if they have children, and NEVER hides them from display.  
Why? Because truncation is for loading efficiency and its very unlikely/uncommon that a list view has more than 100 top level entities with children. So its safe to always show all of them by default.

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**Author:** ![Kingken4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@Kingken4](https://community.fibery.io/u/Kingken4)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/misleading-truncation-of-nested-entities-in-list-view/8813/2 "2025-05-18T22:19:04Z")

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I agree. I had a number of tasks that were ‘_missing_’ from my project management page that were actually there but I couldn’t see them unless I clicked show all - which caused scheduling of individual tasks issues as I couldn’t see all that were open.

What I find even more weird is that there were only 5-6 tasks within that parent but because they were lower on the overall tasks list of the project the system automatically hid them.