Multiple Entity Views - automated selection 😀

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Now that we have multiple entity Views, we are close to being able to “simulate” polymorphic or variadic Types/DBs by automatically hiding fields that are irrelevant to an entity’s “subtype”.

The missing piece is a way to designate the default entity view for each entity.

As a first step in this direction, it would be quite helpful if Fibery would simply remember the last entity View selected for each entity, and use that same View for that entity until a different View is manually associated with the entity.

Ultimately it will be most useful to designate a single-select or formula field to determine the default entity View for each entity. This will allow for programmatic control which will be important to realize the full potential here.

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This already works as you described. Last selected view will be shown for a user

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I suspect @Matt_Blais means that when an entity view is chosen for one entity it does not affect the entity view chosen for other entities of the same type.

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Correct - I did mean that each entity should retain its own last-chosen view (for all users).

Perhaps this could be an option per DB?

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Oh, got it. We will not go for it, but we do want to go for field → default entity view in future

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Great, I had brought this up before as well. To me, if a view is marked as “default” it should load that view for all users, at all times, regardless of what they had previously been looking at. Even better if that view can be dynamically set based on an “entity type” field.

Otherwise, when someone gets linked to a certain entity, there’s no way to know they’re looking at the same thing we want them to. Being able to link directly to a specific view would also help solve this issue for us.

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This will suffice if Automations can set the view-controlling field.

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I have an issue that:

  • for nested entities of database Page,
  • when using two panels side by side,
  • and I have the Child Pages field entity view tab A
  • and I have the Description field in entity view tab B

Then it is impossible to have the following commonly needed panel setup:

Left: Parent Page showing Child pages.
Right: Child Page showing Description.

So easy navigation of child pages is not possible, because as soon as I choose the tab with Descirption field in a child, the parent page also switches to Description tab.

I hope the automated selection can take care of this soon.

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