Hey, I created an abstract example of my real problem. This is my data: Note that two children have the same name and are only distinguishable by Family. [Screenshot 2026-01-15 at 17.45.10] From the schools point of view, I want to select and link children to the school. I created a table view…

Why not add a First name field to your children database, and then define the Name field with a formula as [First name] + “ “ + Family.Name (or Family.Name + ", " + [First name] if you’d prefer) You could also rename the Name field to Full name if you want to avoid ambiguity

The example is a very simplified abstraction of the real data. In the real dataset it is not feasible to extend the Name field to create different entity Ids. Those are distinguished by their relation in a more complex hierarchy tree.

[image] Fabian: In the real dataset it is not feasible to extend the Name field to create different entity Ids. Those are distinguished by their relation in a more complex hierarchy tree. Can you explain what you mean. The name has no effect on entity Ids

Sorry, I mean the visible name that appears when I want to link a child entity in the drop down. It is not feasible for us to change that in order to avoid duplicate names. We need other options to distinguish the child enities with the same name.

[image] Fabian: It is not feasible for us to change that in order to avoid duplicate names. Why? Are you saying that you want to have multiple entities with the name Tim rather than having Tim Jones and Tim Smith? Why? Is it because there are some users who need to know that the child is c…

Hey Chris, we have a 5 tier hierarchy: Space → Module → Submodule → Work Package → Task Work Packages can have names which can be quite long: e.g. “Audio and video theme alignment” We have those Work Packages for each Submodule, so we have a lot of duplicates with that name. I would like to avoi…

[image] Fabian: t would also help if you could answer my question, if there is a better way to link entities? Unfortunately, the direct answer is that it’s currently not possible to see anything but the name when linking. I guess I should have answered that first before digging into the deta…

I believe this is what @Fabian wanted. I asked for this in other places. That’s something that would be really, really useful.

It could be more manageble with the drop down filter: [Screenshot 2026-01-15 at 18.04.29] However, as mentioned above, this filter setting is fixed for every other view. I do not understand the reasoning behind this. This makes it impossible to prepare separate views with pre-defined drop-down f…

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interr0bangr January 16, 2026, 5:03pm 8

Please vote for this feature which would solve your problem. Many of us have this same pain point and there’s no real solution that doesn’t involve unique long, ugly entity names.

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Filter when linking issues in table

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