Week 3: How to Change Related Record Select Names in Data Viewer

Sometimes when I’m working in 8base’s Data Viewer, I’ll try to view or edit a relationship between two records but not be able to because the record name isn’t identifying! Just like in the screen shot below.

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There’s a quick fix though.

Whatever field you drag to the top of a table’s field list becomes the select option in Data Viewer!

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Try it!

Then when you go back into Data Builder you’ll see your “useful” field names in the relationship selectors and fields.

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