Creating a new database automatically creates two fields, Name and Description. I would like to change the Field Name for the first filed but it seems that is not allowed. Is this correct? First field only allows me to do “Generate Name Using Formula” Thanks.

Now you can rename Name field [image] September 25, 2025 / Disable public sharing in a workspace, Rename "Name" field Changelog Disable public sharing in a workspace money_bag This feature is available in Enterprise plan only If your organization doesn’t mess…

Can this be merged with this? [image] Allow more field name changes Ideas & Features Was asked to relay this feature request from team members. They want ability to rename all fields, specifically so we can make them Norwegian and /or give them clearer meaning to anyone t…

This seems like a new and breaking change. It’s not clear to me why Name is now mandatory, undeleteable, and uneditable. If you’re going to do something like that, it would be best to give it it’s own special namespace. What purpose does this field serve? I can’t find anywhere where it was annou…

[image] neil: I can’t find anywhere where it was announced that this change happened. There has been no change - for certain fields it has always been impossible to rename them.

I don’t understand how this can be - I have several tables that exist already which do not have this field.

Databases created via integrations may have a primary field which has a title other than ‘Name’ but for databases created from scratch, there is always a Name field.

Has there been any change with this weird limitation? I had planned on getting around this by hiding this field and creating a properly named “MAC Address” field for the table I’ve created. But once you combine this with the fact that ONLY the default Name field is searchable the whole idea breaks …

[image] cire12: I had planned on getting around this by hiding this field and creating a properly named “MAC Address” field for the table I’ve created. But once you combine this with the fact that ONLY the default Name field is searchable the whole idea breaks down. Fibery is AMAZING, and the d…

[image] mdubakov: We are discussing how to make Name field optional internally, it is not super easy. Does it need to be optional? It feels logic for me that every entity has a title. Since that’s also what you’ll see when opening the entity. Most of the problems are caused because the field…

[image] YvetteLans: It feels logic for me that every entity has a title. Actually, there can be cases where an entity doesn’t need a title (or rather, the entity is implicitly described by the contents of other fields). A classic example is a ‘helper’ database, e.g. task Assignments, where t…

[image] Chr1sG: Actually, there can be cases where an entity doesn’t need a title (or rather, the entity is implicitly described by the contents of other fields). Yes, that’s true. But I don’t see why that’s a problem that needs to be fixed if it’s really hard to change it. If I speak for my…

Cannot change field name "Name" when creating a database

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Chr1sG February 3, 2023, 7:22pm 2

Can this be merged with this?

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Cannot change field name "Name" when creating a database

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