I find myself often wanting easier ways to look at a Type’s entities as a whole. This is a frequent feature of other tools where you can simply access “all contacts” etc. In Fibery we have to rely on a default Table view, which is only easily accessible from the “ctrl” + “K” dialogue, or possibly if you favorite that view - but that can’t be reached with the keyboard.
One feature of many other apps that I find myself frequently looking for in Fibery is the ability to move through a list with arrow keys on either side of an Entity. Here is an example (from Clubhouse.io):
Hey, good questions. I am not in fact 100% sure the way other apps do this. But I’ve used the feature in Jira and Clubhouse and ClickUp and it’s a very nice tool to navigate through Entities. I think, if I had to say, that it would work well with ordering via Public ID, and possibly Views that have filtered Entities, if you open the Entity from such a view.
I have noticed that Entities will turn “yellow”, but haven’t fully mastered where this can be useful. I think if you are viewing in “sidebar” mode and you open an Entity Card, the entity you can still see in the background remains yellow? This is also useful to be able to view an Entity’s details while seeing which one it is on a background board that is still visible.
TargetProcess was all about views, and they had some great ones! So I hope in time we can say the same, if not more, about Fibery, given the pedigree!
With features like this, such as Jira has, I like to be able to navigate per filtered view or parent table in the order things are currently ordered (bonus pts if you can do some reordering w/o closing the single record view.)
With the upcoming panel approach, might be cool to have some configurations of that with an entity table to either side, up or below the single record view. You could then nav via the single record view or through the entity table w/ ease.
Is this still not possible yet? I find it so crucial to be able to check things around. and to be able to move to the next or previous entity. Even if it’s with the arrow keys on my keyboard. For example. I have imported all my Expenses database, and I have to go one by one to be able to get to the file field in the entity, because it is not possible to attach files from table view. Which would be great by the way
Or am I missing something?
Also, the fact that every time you go back to the table view, you are lost again….would be nice if we could still see the table view when an entity is open on the right panel.
As I understand, right now, this happens only with relation inside an entity. But why not when we open an entity?
It should be possible to see a table in the left pane and have an entity open in the right pane.
Am I misunderstanding what you’re after?
Just to be clear, for any given entity, there isn’t a strictly-defined ‘next’ or ‘previous’ entity, since that would depend on the ordering of the entities from the same db (by creation date, by rank, by modification date ?)
But I suppose that it could intelligently take the sort criteria if a data view is open simultaneously.
Really? How? I can not! Please show me how! I have tried from the DB table view and from a list view…and it always minimizes the table, so I’m visually lost…
I see, it would be great if they just followed the order in the view table. I can imagine that is a challenge. Coda does have the option, in case you want to get the idea. Would be amazing!
I’m loving the Fibery experience, and seeing how it’s all the time moving and improving!
I just found out I can do it from a table view. Amazing! That would have made all my imports much faster So from the main database is not possible, right?
