Creating relationship failed. table not exists when creating manual relation

I have a table of users and a table followers with user_id and follower_id

I’m trying to create a view so I can see from a user who users he/she follows and also who follows him/her?

Table users

id
email

Table users_followers

id 
user_id FK --> users
follower_id FK --> users

To see the followers of a user, I created an array relationship followers on users table users_followers . user_id → users . id

and then to be able to see who is following a user, I created the following view

CREATE VIEW following_me AS 
  SELECT u.id as user_id,
    u1.*
    FROM users u 
    LEFT JOIN users_followers f ON u.id = f.follower_id 
    INNER JOIN users u1 ON f.user_id = u1.id;

and then when I try to create a manual relation from the users table to the following_me view as a reference table (users.id --> following_me.user_id), even tho it does appear on the tables dropdown with all the correct fields, when I save, I get and error that says following_me table does not exists

[marionschleifer]

@tafelito I’m closing this issue. Feel free to re-open if you’d like to add something 🙂

[tafelito]

I was indeed just creating the view as I mentioned before. I was not creating a function. Doing what you suggested actually worked. So the view was created and now I’m able to track it. It just won’t allow me to track it when I create it from the SQL editor. I can do more tests if you need me to. Thanks @rikinsk