This guide will show you how to create views on an existing database and the benefits of making such links.
Notion database linked views allow you to create different views on the data contained within your Notion database. These different views can let you see your data from different perspectives, which can be very helpful.
How to create a database link in Notion
In this section, I will write a step-by-step process for creating a database link.
- Open the command menu, find and select the linked view of database
- Select the existing Notion database you want to use in your view
- You can copy an existing view from the database or select a new view.
- Once you have defined a view, the database link is created
You can learn more about Notion database views in our guide to Notion database views.
Benefits of creating linked views of Notion databases
The ability to create multiple views linked to an existing Notion Database. Allowing you to get different information from the same database with ease.
For example, my Notion Database has a content schedule database that details all the content I’m planning to publish.
The Notion board view gives me a Kanban board view of the data held on the summary grid, allowing me to track and manage my content through my content creation process. In contrast, the Notion calendar view of the content schedule database will let me see what content is due to be published.
As the above example shows, multiple views allow users to see different information from the same data quickly.
The data is synced across the multiple views, so any changes to the data contained within the data view. This allows for changes to be made to the data held within the database without accessing the database, which gives some protection to the underlying database, such as preventing it from being deleted by mistake.
Conclusion
Today we have taken a look at linked database views in Notion, which is a powerful capability within Notion.
Of course, you need a database to create linked views of a Notion database. Please find out how in our guide to creating a database guide in Notion.