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Page Layouts You Can Customize

Swifty Team Jan 18, 2025 2 min read

Not everyone needs to see the same thing on a record detail page. A sales manager cares about the deal value and stage. A support agent cares about the customer's recent activity. An accountant cares about the payment status and invoice total.

When a page can only show information in one fixed order, someone's always scrolling past what they don't need to find what they do.

Layouts You Define

Swifty lets you customize the layout of detail pages for any object type. Sections can be reordered, removed, or added. What appears at the top of the page is what matters most to the people using it — not what was there when the template was first created.

Drag to Arrange

Rearranging sections on a page is as simple as dragging them into position. No configuration files, no designer required. Open the layout editor, move sections where they belong, save.

The change takes effect immediately for everyone viewing that object type. Team-wide consistency, with zero coordination overhead.

Show What Matters by Role

Different roles can see different page layouts. The fields and sections visible to a sales rep might differ from what an administrator or finance team member sees on the same record. This isn't just permissions — it's the entire layout adapting to show the most relevant information for each context.

Related Records in Context

One of the most useful layout features is placing related records lists within a detail page. A customer record might show their open invoices, recent service tickets, and linked contacts all on the same page, in sections arranged by how often your team needs to reference them.

Information that belongs together, presented together.

The Cumulative Effect

Detail page layout feels like a small usability improvement. But multiply the time savings by a hundred page loads a day, across a team that uses the application for everything, and the arithmetic becomes significant.

When information is exactly where your team expects it, they work faster. And they make fewer mistakes.

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