Table id displayed in table list

Hi,

When a column is set as Reference or ReferenceList, there is a drop down to select the destination table. This drop down displays the table id, while I’d expect the table name, which is what the user know.

Eg.:

Not sure if it’s a bug or a feature (maybe in case two tables have the same name ?), but I’ve seen a user troubled by this (and thus thinking the table was not renamed and trying rename it again).

If you also think it’s an issue, we can work on it. If you think it’s on purpose, just close the issue 😃

Thanks!

Yohan

[yohanboniface]

ok! cc @LouisDelbosc quick one 😃

[LouisDelbosc]

What you are seeing on the left panel is a list of Pages, which contain Page Widgets (≈ View Sections in the code), which render data from Tables. Pages and Tables are often in a 1:1 relationship for simple documents, but they don’t have to be. Pages can have multiple Widgets drawing from multiple Tables. Multiple Pages could be showing material from the same Table, perhaps filtered or displayed differently. So Pages and Tables can be named differently. What counts as a table name is a little trickier than you might expect, for historic reasons, but what Raw Data Tables / Données sources shows as the name of a table is the logic we’d like to use consistently everywhere. Tagging @dsagal as the best person to speak to a grand unified theory of table names 😃

Ok thanks for the explanation, I have a better understanding now.