What's New?

Improvements

• Supports selecting element name on a quick lookup formula.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed and issue where existing automatic related fields would not show the related field when editing them.

Improvements

• Added a button to public forms to copy a link with prefilled form data.

• Improved text area field element mention linking and navigation.

• Improved the usability of the visual scripting editor for formula creation.

• Added support for setting manually related Relationship fields with formulas in automations.

• Added support for matching on person fields and metadata to automatic relationships.

• Added COUNTNOTEMPTY and COUNTEMPTY functions to the formula engine.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with rending images in publicly shared forms.

• Fixed an issue with automations running on certain lookup field values.

We’re thrilled to introduce you to something we’ve been building toward for the last two years: Layer 4.

Layer 4 is the culmination of countless hours reimagining how you connect, relate, and summarize data in Layer—and it’s all been driven by you, our users, pushing the platform in incredible ways.

Watch the Announcement →

New Relationships in Layer

We’ve unified what used to be separate—related element, auto-lookup, and spatial relationships—into one powerful field. Now, no matter how relationships are created (manual, automatic, or spatial), they work the same way.

Relationships aren’t just links anymore—they’re live data sources. You can reference any related field directly, customize how it appears, and combine it with the brand-new Visual Formula Editor.

Relationship Types

• Manual - Manually relate elements between two categories by selecting elements in the project, just like the original Related Element field.

• Automatic - Build a set of filter criteria (think automatic lookups) referencing element data to return all matching elements. Automatic relationships compute based on live project data and instantly refresh when updated data is available.

• Spatial (Revit Categories only) - View the elements that are geometrically related to the given element, such as furniture in a room. Related elements can optionally be further filtered down with the same criteria available to automatic relationships.

Learn more about relationships →

Meet the Visual Formula Editor

This is one of the biggest upgrades ever to Layer.

The Visual Formula Editor gives you an intuitive, no-code way to build logic inside:

• Relationship lookups

• The new Formula Field

• Automation actions

You can now dig deep into relationships and perform complex calculations that were once impossible—like estimating total furniture costs by rolling up data through multiple layers of relationships.

Learn more →

Smarter Automations

Formulas now work inside Automations. Use calculated values in the Update Element action to create dynamic workflows that respond intelligently to your data.

A Faster, Smoother Revit Experience

For our Revit users, Data-Only Publish is here. Send model data to Layer in seconds, with automatic versioning every time you publish. No more waiting minutes for a model to publish. Get Revit data to Layer in seconds.

A Fresh Look

Layer 4 also comes with a refreshed interface—streamlined sidebars, modern visuals, and a more flexible color system designed to make your workspace feel faster and more expressive.

Layer 4 isn’t just an update—it’s a reset.

It’s our biggest leap forward since founding Layer, and it’s built to help you build faster, connect deeper, and summarize data like never before.

Minor Improvements

• Added the ability to recover deleted elements from the Activity log.

• Added support for viewing panoramic images in publicly shared views.

• Added support for searching your projects list.

• Improved performance of the project management dialog, particularly for larger projects.

• Improved performance of document view report exporting for single elements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with data cleanup.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with resolving values when using person fields in FormulaV2.

• Fixed a bug with displaying RelatedV2 field values in form views.

• Fixed a bug with backspace causing accidental node deletion in the FormulaV2 formula editor.

Improvements

• The use of FormulaV2 fields in automations was moved into beta testing.

Bug Fixes

• A bug with font handling in exported document view reports was fixed.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with lookup values showing in document view

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with lookup fields not showing value in document views

• Fixed issue with API erroring on element requests

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing API queries to fail.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing view names changes to not be reflected in the UI.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing document views to crash when incomplete fields were present in the category.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where containers in document views were not aligning correctly

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where containers in document views were not aligning correctly

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing fewer than expected elements to show up in table and gallery views when no filters or sorts were applied.

• Fixed a bug causing non-default views to appear in the default category views list.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing the Element Sync Engine loading screen to appear more frequently than necessary.

• Fixed a bug with containers in document view not showing all their borders.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was preventing public links from loading correctly.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with archived elements causing empty rows in related elements tables in document view

Improvements

• Improved the performance of loading FormulaV2 field values in document views.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that allowed restricted users to edit element names when the name was not present in the current view.