# Nesting in smart folders is broken

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/nesting-in-smart-folders-is-broken/9669>\
**Category:** Bugs & Issues\
**Created:** [September 24, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/nesting-in-smart-folders-is-broken/9669 "2025-09-24T12:17:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Wilco\_Boode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/wilco_boode/32/9985_2.png) [@Wilco\_Boode](https://community.fibery.io/u/Wilco_Boode)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/nesting-in-smart-folders-is-broken/9669/1 "2025-09-24T12:17:25Z")

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Nesting in smart folders (grouping by same database relation) by drag & dropping items is only possible if a group already exists. It is not possible to drag and drop one entity on top of another to start the nesting (as is the norm with tree structures).

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/nesting-in-smart-folders-is-broken/9669/2 "2025-09-24T15:37:48Z")

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Can you share a video of what you mean - not sure I get it.

Do you mean enabling a hierarchical self-relation to show up for a smart folder?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/3/3f639b564a37b0a10e85548609e113b2ac8405e7.png)

Or do you mean that you want a self-relation to be configured (created at the database level) by virtue of dragging an entity on top of another entity of the same type?

Or something else?

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**Author:** ![Wilco\_Boode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/wilco_boode/32/9985_2.png) [@Wilco\_Boode](https://community.fibery.io/u/Wilco_Boode)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/nesting-in-smart-folders-is-broken/9669/3 "2025-09-24T16:42:56Z")

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![Parenting](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/7/7d319312b2a62d5f795353748c91855a61db1036.gif)

Here is a little gif to show the issue

Nesting test 3 under test 1 is fine, when test 4 is already there

But nesting 3 under 2, or 2 under 3 is impossible

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/nesting-in-smart-folders-is-broken/9669/4 "2025-09-24T17:26:32Z")

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Has it just broken, or is it something that you just tried for the first time (and may have always been broken)?

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**Author:** ![Wilco\_Boode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/wilco_boode/32/9985_2.png) [@Wilco\_Boode](https://community.fibery.io/u/Wilco_Boode)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 4:57am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/nesting-in-smart-folders-is-broken/9669/5 "2025-09-25T04:57:19Z")

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It might have always been like this, I am not sure.

But it feels broken, since the nesting works in some situations.