# How do you visualize your tables? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [March 4, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254 "2022-03-04T23:28:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tamara\_Didenko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/tamara_didenko/32/42215_2.png) [@Tamara\_Didenko](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Tamara_Didenko)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254/1 "2022-03-04T23:28:56Z")
As my Glide App grows, I find a need to visualize all the intricacies of calculated and related columns. I know that there are solutions for SQL databases that can graph it automatically but I’m not sure if it’s possible for Glide tables (guessing not?). I’ve tried using [dbdiagram.io](http://dbdiagram.io) and it’s a decent solution, but at some point becomes a bit unwieldy (I’m also not using it right, but oh, well, call the police 🤣) ![CleanShot 2022-03-04 at 16.27.24](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/0/e/0eac721e73b174cf20edc26bd8e0496ed0d4fea1.png) Curious if anyone knows of other solutions. Extra points for something that’s free =) Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![fluittsolutions](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/fluittsolutions/32/30155_2.png) [@fluittsolutions](https://community.glideapps.com/u/fluittsolutions)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254/2 "2022-03-04T23:34:22Z")
I MUST be able to see my app. I use Excel. ![Glidelayout](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/e/2/e22a85d51f2a7495f9b134e14b5cf147f1ad64aa.png) ---
**Author:** ![Tamara\_Didenko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/tamara_didenko/32/42215_2.png) [@Tamara\_Didenko](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Tamara_Didenko)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254/3 "2022-03-04T23:35:12Z")
Of course!!! 🤩 Do you use any kind of automation or just manually update it? ---
**Author:** ![fluittsolutions](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/fluittsolutions/32/30155_2.png) [@fluittsolutions](https://community.glideapps.com/u/fluittsolutions)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254/4 "2022-03-04T23:38:06Z")
Manually. This was created after I had been working on my first app because I was going crazy trying to keep up. Now I attempt to build this first and it makes all of the difference as I think through my logic of glide’s relations, lookups, computations, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Tamara\_Didenko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/tamara_didenko/32/42215_2.png) [@Tamara\_Didenko](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Tamara_Didenko)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254/5 "2022-03-04T23:39:49Z")
Yes, Database Architect is a profession for a reason =) These relations get unwieldy really quickly, and your experience sounds exactly like what I’m going through. Granted, I was just learning the tool, but it’s time to clean this mess up! Thank you for the advice =) Will try that! ---
**Author:** ![gvalero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gvalero/32/1037_2.png) [@gvalero](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gvalero)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254/6 "2022-03-05T01:35:37Z")
Hola! Try with [https://www.diagrams.net](https://www.diagrams.net). I haven’t used it since long time ago but it had some interesting things. Don’t fell bad about your “little mess”, the database’s relationships diagrams aren’t nice and friendly most cases, I have seen some ones on MS SQL Server very crazy 🤯 and complex. Have a nice night ---
**Author:** ![Tamara\_Didenko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/tamara_didenko/32/42215_2.png) [@Tamara\_Didenko](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Tamara_Didenko)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 2:41am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254/7 "2022-03-05T02:41:12Z")
> [@gvalero](#): > > Don’t fell bad about your “little mess”, the database’s relationships diagrams aren’t nice and friendly most cases, I have seen some ones on MS SQL Server very crazy 🤯 and complex. Heh, well, less worried about the mess by itself, but rather about the fact that I can’t tell what’s related to what, which is kind of the whole point of the diagram 🤣 🤦‍♀️ Thank you, I’ll check it out! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254/8 "2022-03-05T02:51:10Z")
> [@Tamara\_Didenko](#): > > but rather about the fact that I can’t tell what’s related to what Thinking carefully about how you name columns, and taking full advantage of [Column Grouping](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/product/data-editor/managing-columns#column-grouping) can both help with that 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tamara\_Didenko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/tamara_didenko/32/42215_2.png) [@Tamara\_Didenko](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Tamara_Didenko)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 4:06am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254/9 "2022-03-05T04:06:33Z")
Doing both =) I can tell what’s related to what looking at my tables, but not when I’m looking at that automatic diagram =) Sorry, I’m very picky about my visualizations =) ---
**Author:** ![spideymask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@spideymask](https://community.glideapps.com/u/spideymask)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254/10 "2025-05-18T01:16:02Z")
Found myself in this exact same position. How are you dealing with that problem 3 years later? ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-you-visualize-your-tables/39254/11 "2025-05-18T09:33:41Z")
I create entity-relationship diagrams in Claude. They are very helpful when building and I include them in the documentation of the application. I cannot recall who recommended this to me, probably @ThinhDinh, @Darren_Murphy or @Robert_Petitto.