Current Functionality Currently it is possible to create new cards via the record customisation page. For cards created that are displayed in the center tab, it is possible to apply filtering on some of the card types to only display the details you want to see. In the below example, I have an "association table" card that allows me to display associated records, the properties I want to see, and a filter to only show certain types of records that match the filter criteria; in this case I only want to see product subscriptions that are not deactivated: Limitation While this is true for cards in the center tab, sidebar cards on a record currently are only able to display all associated records. It is possible to create new cards to display different properties of those records, but it will still show every associated record. When creating a new card, there is only the option to change the properties visible, and nothing else. Suggestion My suggestion would be to be able to create cards with similar filtering and sorting options, so as only to display associated records with certain criteria you are interested in, at a glance. Example On a company page you could create a sidebar card called "Ticket Openers". This card would show associated contacts of the company, but filtered on a custom property that exists on the contact level, "Number of tickets opened". You could set the filter to be "Number of tickets opened" > 0, sort by "Number of tickets opened" descending. Now this sidebar card would show you, at a glance, the contacts associated to the company record you are viewing that have opened tickets, in order of most to least. Benefit Due to the sidebar cards always being present on a record (unless minimised) they have the benefit of displaying information without needing to navigate around the record. Sometimes teams will be looking for common information, and the ability to display that information on the sidebar would minimise the amount of navigation required as it will be visible at a glance. This would also help to clean up associations somewhat. In my first example of "Active Product Subscriptions", the current functionality displays all of our custom object Product Subscriptions. Some of these may be old trials that we ran. Some may be deactivated products, or legacy products. This is all useful data, but due to the associations showing all records, it means we could have 10+ associated records showing in the sidebar, most of which are not relevant. By allowing filtering, we could change this to only display the ones that are useful at a glance.
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