# Smart thumbnails per project

**URL:** <https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/smart-thumbnails-per-project/4140>\
**Category:** Flow Production Tracking\
**Tags:** thumbnails\
**Created:** [December 5, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/smart-thumbnails-per-project/4140 "2019-12-05T17:19:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![macbeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@macbeth](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/macbeth)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/smart-thumbnails-per-project/4140/1 "2019-12-05T17:19:36Z")

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Hi I saw this is a request many years ago in some comments.  
Is this still a limitation? Smart Thumbnails are only a “global” setting?

Thanks a lot!

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**Author:** ![shaynad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/shaynad/32/100_2.png) [@shaynad](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/shaynad)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/smart-thumbnails-per-project/4140/2 "2019-12-05T23:27:49Z")

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Hi @macbeth 👋 ,

Thanks for the post! At this time, there isn’t a way to configure smart thumbnails per project, and they are global per entity. This is great feedback that I believe would make awesome functionality.

I’d recommend logging your request with our product team on our roadmap portal. Check out those instructions here:

> [@How do I submit an idea or feature request?](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/how-do-i-submit-an-idea-or-feature-request/253):
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> If you’ve got an idea or need for a feature, you can submit it directly to our product team over on [our public roadmap](https://shotgunsoftware.com/roadmap). When you submit an idea, your feedback is delivered to our product team and the product owner of that area of Shotgun will review and determine next steps. The best ideas are the ones that explain why this would be useful in your workflow and how you would use it. This helps the product team to understand if there is a need to be filled. While the roadmap is the best place …

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**Author:** ![Gary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gary](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/Gary)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/smart-thumbnails-per-project/4140/3 "2019-12-06T14:52:04Z")

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What we have instead done, for now, is to have the thumbnail filter query use the project field as part of it and group different types of filtering together.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/original/2X/0/020eb8eebd2f20ca9b1227488b771ae781635981.png)

Basically you have it filtering to match any of the groups, which all have their own approach to filtering things.

This is not ideal because it’s very heavy on the filters, but it’s the only way currently that we can have this functionality (since we couldn’t even make an alternate thumbnail field due to its built in nature).