Problem with opening rows to edit and embedded docs

When I click a button that has the “open row for editing” enabled inside an embed / sync page it opens up the original doc in a new tab. Rather than just opening the modal to edit the row. It would be great if this behaviour was by default enabled so that the modal would just open without breaking the user experience.

I’ve filed this as a bug because it feels like one compared to what is a really good user experience!

I click the button and a new tab is opened:
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I am having this issue as well.

The synced pages work great and any attempt to open the row for editing results in the original doc being opened to display the modal. I tried the default layout and custom layouts and the result is the same.

Update: The same thing happens when trying to open a big editor on a text field.

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Agreed, also having this issue. Replying to hopefully give it some more attention.

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Same issue - would love a fix.

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I found a workaround for this.

All of the tables you plan to open from the sync page need to be imported as subpages.

Screenshot 2025-08-19 at 11.57.26

If you add the table as another sync page it won’t work, as sync pages can’t reference content from another sync page. It works only if they are imported as one sync.

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