I’m struggling with many-to-many here. My goal is have a list of members have a list of possible events members can choose which events they are going to on the app show an event and who is attending that I saw this post referencing 3 sheets Many-to-Many Relationships - #22 by Alfonso_Aguilar bu…

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Hi @timheuer I know you said you have watched videos, just checking that you have seen this one? [Multiple Relations | Glide Tutorial] And read this [image] Glide • Quickstart Publish your first app in under 5 minutes

Yes unfortunately those are not helping me…I’m clearly missing something in my brain. In a normal database I’d have 3 tables: members, events, memberevents – I’m just not seeing how 3 sheets then map using this relational column concept and still show me the values i want

Hi @timheuer . It was a long time ago and some current features were not available then… Here is a link to the sample app: https://many2many-norep.glideapp.io . Take a look to the data tables in the app. You will find 3 tables: Events table: you list of possible events. Participants table: your l…

Thanks @Alfonso_Aguilar this is helpful to look at – I’ve made more progress. Now trying to display the right things on the form is hard: Done - I want a Member screen that shows the name of all events they are getting Done - A list of events Not figured out - Look at the event details and show …

You can use a LookUp column. Notice that to reach the Participants table from the Events table you have to traverse 2 relations: Events-to-Attendees and Attendees-to-Participants. For your reference,I have added a new LookUp column to the Events table in the sample app. You may need to get an updat…

This worked for me… but whoo I wasn’t going to come up with that for myself. I had exactly the problem of two hops to get past the linking table, I didn’t think of doing the hops in the data tables :grinning:

Hey All, After a little experimentation I figured out a method for a natively supported many-to-many relation without using a linking table. There is a calculated column type called “Split Text” that makes the magic happen! Here’s my methodology: Create a choice UX element on table A which allo…

[image] SomeKidNamedAlex: use a “contained in” or “contains” filter to check for all not just one object. If you have relations already, why do you need to use contain though?

Here’s a use case question, what happens in the case where you have teams with members with each member have different roles (ie. admin, manager, etc), how does that work? In a normal database, you would create teams, members, team_members so it sounds like that would be different in Glide, is that…

Are you looking for something related to relations, or are you actually looking for Roles? [image] Roles | Glide Docs Define roles for your users and build different experiences and permissions.

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Hi @timheuer

I know you said you have watched videos, just checking that you have seen this one?

And read this

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