# Lookups and Relations not showing in Component

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**Created:** [September 11, 2022, 10:29am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/lookups-and-relations-not-showing-in-component/49082 "2022-09-11T10:29:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![mike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mike/32/45713_2.png) [@mike](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 10:29am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/lookups-and-relations-not-showing-in-component/49082/1 "2022-09-11T10:29:11Z")

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Hi,

doing a course app with meetings and attendees I got a meetings table with relations+lookups to get the email addresses of the attendees but when I want to access these fields in the meetings component they do not show up. I compared my tables to the “Company Tasks & Projects” template and I am doing pretty much the same as what the app is doing with employe-email lookup. There it works but not in my own app. Any hints?  
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Cheers,

Mike

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/lookups-and-relations-not-showing-in-component/49082/2 "2022-09-11T11:40:28Z")

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It’s because your relation is a multiple relation, and so your lookup returns an array. And an array cannot be used as the source of a component that expects a single value.

Assuming that you want to show all attendees, you’re probably better off replacing the lookup column with a joined list instead, and use that in a rich text component. If you want each shown on a separate line, you can replace the default comma separator with a new line.

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**Author:** ![kyleheney](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kyleheney/32/41173_2.png) [@kyleheney](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kyleheney)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/lookups-and-relations-not-showing-in-component/49082/3 "2022-09-11T11:40:37Z")

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Lookups will only show like this when used with Single Relations. Uncheck the “multiple” checkbox in your relation and it should show up.

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**Author:** ![mike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mike/32/45713_2.png) [@mike](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 11:52am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/lookups-and-relations-not-showing-in-component/49082/4 "2022-09-11T11:52:54Z")

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Thank you both. That was the problem. The initial goal is to send an email to all course attendees so I converted the lookup to a joined list and think I can move on from here.

Thx!!

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 11:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/lookups-and-relations-not-showing-in-component/49082/5 "2022-09-12T11:53:04Z")

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