How should I structure several views of same table?

[WillB]

I have one table where I store updates from our community, they are things like interesting documents they want to share, events that are coming up and policy documents, they all have the same fields but different catagories.

At the moment I have 3 separate pages and I filter by category and for things like events filter out ones in the past, but this means I need to maintain three forms when ideally I would like to have one.

Should I have 1 page with a filter instead, or tabs or something else. Would love to hear how others have solved this.

[darragh]

Great question @WillB

For this, you should create sub-views for the different filters

Here’s a quick guide on those:

Parent pages & folders | Noloco

Setting up sub-views will mean the sub-views use the same form and record view as the parent view, meaning you don’t have to maintain three+ versions

[WillB]

Hi Darragh - thanks this is really helpful. My second part is how to I avoid having different forms to maintain for each of the sub pages?

So in your example you might have the option to add a new property on both the active and pending property pages, I would like to have this open the same new property form regardless of which page it came from. Is this possible?

[darragh]

@WillB

My second part is how to I avoid having different forms to maintain for each of the sub pages?

If you use sub-views (which I don’t see from your screenshot) then they would use the same form.

Optionally you can adjust the What form should be used? option and choose your main page