Relation field feature request — Now’s the right time ✨

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Hey everyone 👋

We’ve been working hard for quite some time on developing the relation field for the new record experience. It will connects database apps even better — staying a core part of how records and data link across your entire organization.

Over the past months, we’ve learned a lot from your feedback, discussions, and feature requests.
Everything you’ve shared is helping us rethink and develop in better ways.

Like this feature request:

Because relations are absolutely essential for most use cases, we want to make sure we’re getting it right, not just for today but for the foundation it builds for the future.

:point_right: This is where we need your help.

  • Are there any changes, improvements, or additional capabilities you’d love to see in the relation field?
  • Anything that would make it more powerful or flexible for your specific use case?

Even if your feature request has been mentioned before, please share it again. It helps us see how important it truly is. Of course, we won’t be able to deliver everything at once, but it’s important that we design the foundation so future improvements are possible.

So please, share your ideas. As always, videos, screenshots from other tools, sketches, or any kind of feedback are super welcome — anything that helps us understand what’s most important to you. Just leave it here in the comments.

Let’s make the relation field community-driven and as useful as possible.
Every idea you share helps us make Tape better for you and for everyone.
Thanks for being part of this journey.

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Awesome!

Some ideas came to mind:

  • Relation field card layout allowing category fields of related records to be updated directly from the card.

  • Table view of related records inside the record layout - adding new records by adding a line at the colapsed table of related records.

  • Filter records from relation field according to other conditions. For example, when filling the Company at the first relation field, filter the Contacts to be shown at the second relation field as only the contacts from that selected Company.

Cheers! :brazil:

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When we have multiple apps attached to a relation field, and we create a new item, there’s a modal that pops up allowing us to select which app we want to create a new item from.

I would love the ability to reorder these related apps.

As is, you have to delete all of them from the related options and then add them back in the new order you would want them.

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As Toni said, conditional filtering would be amazing.

If URL = Google com → filter available related options to ones with that URL

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Select company in related1
Select filtered employees in related2

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Not isolated to this feature, but can we get consistent Ctrl+click to open items/links into new tabs? I would definitely benefit from this across the board so I’m mentioning it here again.

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We’ve built quite a few workarounds using calculation fields, but having these features would make a big difference. That would be amazing, our team would really appreciate it!

Reference Layout (like in Podio):

  • Option to show more than 5 fields
  • Option to display the field name, not only the value (e.g. when several select field options look similar)
  • Ability to change the displayed value (e.g. Status field)

Ability to change the order of the related apps shown at the bottom of a record (those coming from other apps)

Thank you!