# Feature request: automatic smart group creation by field

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/feature-request-automatic-smart-group-creation-by-field/68826>\
**Category:** DEVONthink\
**Created:** [January 6, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/feature-request-automatic-smart-group-creation-by-field/68826 "2022-01-06T13:30:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![extracampine](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e5b9ba/32.png) [@extracampine](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/extracampine)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/feature-request-automatic-smart-group-creation-by-field/68826/1 "2022-01-06T13:30:12Z")

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This would be so useful - to have DT automatically create smart groups of a certain field. For example, I might have a “document type” field with 10 entries including book, article, printout, etc. Rather than create a smart group for each of these 10 document types, DT could create the 10 smart groups automatically. Would save so much time!

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/feature-request-automatic-smart-group-creation-by-field/68826/2 "2022-01-06T13:50:23Z")

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> [@extracampine](#):
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> Rather than create a smart group for each of these 10 document types, DT could create the 10 smart groups automatically.

In case of smart groups inside databases a script could actually do this.