Has anybody created a way to have a bi-directional row-level relationship between two tables in a non-manual way? I have a set of notes (table) that I reference regularly. One of the columns book(s) is a lookup to a separate table. When I select a specific book from that lookup, I want to have an e…

Well, I obviously solved it using LOOKUP to accomplish this simple functionality. :blush::exploding_head: I should have dug in a little more to solve this simple problem. Sorry for that guys. n00b

Happy Birthday Fred! Glad you figured it out! Curious , did you just want the book info to show up in the notes table or also in the books table you wanted to see all the notes for that book?

hey @mallika thanks for the birthday wishes. I want to have the relations show up in both tables (i.e. bi-directional). this is something that I have used in notion.so where it is built-in functionality when you establish the relation between the two tables. (one-way or bi-directional). I have cre…

I also use the notes table where I reference other notes within the same table. The nice thing about notion.so is when you create a relation between one note to another note, it can automatically create the relation from parent to child and child to parent automatically. I should accomplish the sam…

This is how I would expect it to function as well. I find lookups in coda challenging as the are forced one-way and you cannot create a select box on both related tables (one always needs to be a formula). +1 to adding this functionality.

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Creating a bi-directional row-level relationship between two tables

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Creating a bi-directional row-level relationship between two tables

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