Formula based Name causes issues in related entity creation form

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Posting first as question, may result in ideas how to work around without extra fields overhead.

How to properly create a related entity through a New entity form, if that related entity has a Name based on formula?

The form allows to fill in a Name, but after hitting Create, the inserted name is deleted and an entity with an empty name is linked.

This is confusing behavior.

  1. Why allow users to fill in a name in the first place?
  2. There is no way to fill in a field that their Name value uses, so it requires extra steps to fill that in manually after form submission.

For very common relations (e.g. new folders, tags categories or sibling entities) this is a lot of work.

I suggest Fibery team to think about allowing related entities their fields to be populated in the entity create field.

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In general, I agree with this. There is a solution that’s quite simple though. Set any field in the other database as required. This will then force a another popup to open in order to fill the required fields in. It’s still not ideal, since the data that was written in the text box gets lost, but it’s the best solution I could find so far. Let me know what you think.

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Hi. Agreed 100%. My earlier related post here: [UX/UI/Bug] Fields - Relations - Entity creation flow (with formula-generated name) from inside relation field

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