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Views
A collection can have several views — different ways of looking at the same records. Open a collection's Views tab, click Add View, give it a name, and pick a type. People switch between views from the app's toolbar; you choose which one opens by default from the dropdown above the view list.
View types
- Card — a grid of compact cards, each showing a title, an optional subtitle, a status badge (from an enum field), and an optional image slot. Good for catalogs and lists people scan visually.
- Image Card — a full-bleed image card variant of the above.
- Table — a sortable data grid. Pick which fields show as columns, a default sort, and turn pagination on or off.
- Detail — the single-record page, organized into labeled sections (e.g. "About," "Pricing," "Actions") so a busy record stays readable. Every collection gets one by default.
- Calendar — records plotted on a month/week/day calendar, mapped from a date field (and optionally a start/end time and an end date for multi-day events).
- Chart — bar, line, pie, or doughnut charts built from your fields, with a label field and an optional value field (counts records if you leave it blank).
- Dashboard — a grid of panels: either an embedded view or a stat panel (count, sum, average, min, or max over a field) — for an at-a-glance overview of a collection.
Filtering
Card, table, calendar, and chart views can expose a filter bar over a chosen set of fields — click Add filter and pick which ones. Text, number, date, boolean, enum, and reference fields all get an appropriate filter control automatically.
Restricting what a view shows
Two independent, optional formulas:
- Show view tab only if — hides the entire view/tab (not just a field), useful for showing a view only to a certain role.
- Filter records — hides individual records that don't match, rather than the whole view.
Sections (Card & Detail views)
Card and detail views are organized into sections — ordered groups of fields and action buttons. A section can have its own visibility formula, so you can show or hide a whole group at once (e.g. an "Admin notes" section only visible to certain roles).
Table columns
For table views, the fields you add (in the Fields tab, reused here) become left-to-right columns in the order you place them; action buttons appear together in a trailing column.
Dashboard panels
Each panel is either:
- View — embeds another (non-dashboard, non-detail) view from the same collection, optionally limited to a number of rows.
- Stat — a single number: a count, sum, average, min, or max over a chosen field.
Panels can be filtered, conditionally shown, sorted, sized (quarter/third/half/full width), and reordered by dragging.
