What I can see is that in the second image, the first group (CSdept) is an empty group with HT Credist/Position being a concatenation of few columns. Hard to investigate simply from images. You can give me access at cristian@cristian-nichifor.com and I can have a look at it.
That’s what is so weird, CS Dept is NOT an empty group, and the info showing in the HT Credits column in the second screenshot is actually from a totally separate field. Sent you access to look, appreciate it!
If anyone else runs into this - the problem is because I did a copy/paste of information from one record to the next, into what ended up being the wrong fields. Coda accepts the info even if it not correct, which broke the relations. So of course nothing displayed or related properly after that