# Relationship properties

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/relationship-properties/887>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Tags:** flexible-domain\
**Created:** [August 7, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/relationship-properties/887 "2020-08-07T20:26:20Z")\
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> [@Sev](#):
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> Am I missing something something here, or is the **issue only present when the relationship is many-to-one** , and therefore the **relationship list view is not available** to expose the related entity’s fields in the UI and allow them to be edited?

In your scenario the junction table works fine as the table displayed on the entity. Although no field that is a lookup field on the junction table is editable, as that feature doesn’t exist.

In some scenarios it’s not quite that simple. I’ll give one example. 3 Databases (DB) Accounts, Contacts, Roles (a junction table with 3 editable fields: Account, Contact, Title, & other lookup fields).

- Contacts and Accounts is many to many
- Contacts and Roles is many to one
- Accounts and Roles is many to one

In this scenario we have a navigation issue. I never want to open the Role. When I am on the Contact and I click on a Role I want it to open the associated Account. And when I am on the Account the Roles relation shows a directory of Contacts associated with the account. When I click on a Role I want it to open the Contact (not the Role).

We also have the editable lookup fields issue. If I want to display the email and phone number of the Contact, I can do so, but it either takes uneditable lookup fields or new duplicated fields and automation rules to make work. At least this issue has a work around.

We also have another issue of when I am on the account I want to create/ add a new contact with a title. I am essentially required to create a role and include all the contact fields that I want to show on the role.

Having some sort of context based formulas / fields would allow us to to use the Contacts instead of the Roles on the Account and would alleviate this issue in part.

Again I think you are spot on with this being a UI limitation rather than an issue on the DB side.

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