---
title: "Guide to Gallery View"
description: "Learn how to create a gallery view for your records."
url: https://help.stackby.com/en/articles/141-guide-to-gallery-view
collection: "Visualize Data in Different Views"
updated: 2025-09-15
language: en
---

# Guide to Gallery View

Learn how to create a gallery view for your records.

Watch a quick tutorial on Gallery Views:

You can now create your mood boards, directories, art showcase and more with the Gallery View. 

## **Configuring a Gallery View** 

You can configure a gallery view by selecting from the 'Create view' dropdown.   

![](https://d258lu9myqkejp.cloudfront.net/attachment_images/09900c4d7f2a1ec86afc803a24a255462585463af2eacb7e9d63d65399017d06Screen%20Shot%202020-06-22%20at%207.39.51%20PM.png)

## **Customizing your Gallery Cards** 

You can customize your gallery cards, the way you'd like to see. 

Open the 'Customize Card' dropdown.

![](https://d258lu9myqkejp.cloudfront.net/attachment_images/479455007f949bef4a1a0ce216f67a96afaf140e695ed67992c276f698802cf1Screen%20Shot%202020-06-22%20at%207.39.30%20PM.png)

-   **Use Crop and fit** - To change the image sizing on the preview. 
    

![](https://d258lu9myqkejp.cloudfront.net/attachment_images/ade9a025841b4371c393452c17c3c4a8639c8d0e4891ea1c2100307575cfde57Customize_Crop-FIt.gif)

-   **Select information to show in cards**  - To hide or show the column properties in cards 
    

![](https://d258lu9myqkejp.cloudfront.net/attachment_images/86c9cd2a62aa7c5189a0c736712cfa7b71a5be091375ac2ba156355fd06cfa30Customize-Hide-Show-Columns.gif)

## **Create New Gallery Cards** 

**By clicking on the '+' sign** 

You can also create a new card by clicking on the '+' icon on the bottom right corner of the view. 

![](https://d258lu9myqkejp.cloudfront.net/attachment_images/8115879cf290919c02405ecb7c9851ccb6f69f21d3ea550c358ad44e6357f9c4Gallery%20Asset%20Management%20-%20Stackby.gif)

**By dragging and dropping your files and attachments** 

![](https://d258lu9myqkejp.cloudfront.net/attachment_images/66d255a9fdad47f718718b19906b734f2bda15abf919c90ad52b74bf4fa23535Create-new-cards-drag-drop.gif)

## **Search bar in gallery view:**  

Now you can search any record in gallery view. It will work the same like [grid search bar](https://help.stackby.com/en/articles/136-guide-to-grid-view.md).   
You can enter 'Apply' on the Search panel to get your search responses in real-time. 

You can also toggle after the search result, using the up/down icons or pressing ENTER on the search box and see the count of your search result.

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/4JaImVCbMqkNtHdrhs0tjKOFzRDR6j6AIw5b1eFAurXG72NnHgSjlXqMVPkT5nV1qbmKJPUGsZ6.png)

## **Gallery View Use-cases** 

## There are numerous use-cases on why and how you need to use the Gallery view for your company. Best to use for - 

-   Creative assets 
    
-   Moodboards
    
-   Art and Photography
    
-   Digital Assets 
    
-   File Management 
    
-   People Management 
    
-   Job Boards 
    
-   Directories 
    
-   And whatever you can think of :)
    

## **Gallery View Limits** 

If you have over 10K records and have most columns on display, please give it some time to render. Use this to show only the relevant info you need to display for the best experience.