# Customize Empty Lists Behavior

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/customize-empty-lists-behavior/32623>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [October 4, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/customize-empty-lists-behavior/32623 "2021-10-04T07:02:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Maxim\_KM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maxim_km/32/29274_2.png) [@Maxim\_KM](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Maxim_KM)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/customize-empty-lists-behavior/32623/1 "2021-10-04T07:02:33Z")

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Please, allow adding own explanation (Title/Text) and Action when tapping on huge icon(same as Tab Icon)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/d/3/d351e29164cbb3bf07aec8bf999d002de7168361.png)

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**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 8:04am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/customize-empty-lists-behavior/32623/2 "2021-10-04T08:04:49Z")

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You could achieve your suggestion by doing the following:

- Use the visibility option at the list level.
- For the icon, you could use a button with no background and no border (I think this might be called the _simple_ version of the _button_ component).
- For the text, same idea.
- For both components, add an action, for instance a “Go to tab” action.

Both components will be centered, be clickable, personalized and will only display when the list is empty.

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**Author:** ![Maxim\_KM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maxim_km/32/29274_2.png) [@Maxim\_KM](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Maxim_KM)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/customize-empty-lists-behavior/32623/3 "2021-10-04T19:52:01Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion, but…  
I can do this only if jump to the Details layout and adding custom lists. So, for other 6 modes, I cannot modify Empty List behavior.  
And especially, I cannot use Swipe layout in Details Tab.

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**Author:** ![XceL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/xcel/32/91079_2.png) [@XceL](https://community.glideapps.com/u/XceL)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/customize-empty-lists-behavior/32623/4 "2022-01-27T01:49:23Z")

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Surprised this did not get more votes.  
Sometimes we can’t use details layout hence cannot have conditional elements like you suggest @nathanaelb.

I need this for the calendar layout that I use for ordering items that are not events, so ended up reverting to list layout that shows the date as Title.

It would be great if we can at least change the sentence that is shown when there are no items.  
Hopefully this is added in a near future