EDIT: Escaliting this to Issue status, because of severe hampering of creating new entities through relations. Daily tension. 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. Why all…

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 i…

Formula based Name causes issues in related entity creation form

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Sev January 8, 2026, 6:32am 3

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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Formula based Name causes issues in related entity creation form

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