Feature request based on Roam Research

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Hey @Bill_French, as expert as ever! Very cool to get some explanation of how this all works under the hood, I am learning all the time!

I am also very interested in Reciprocal Referencing across Coda, have talked about it here:

Reciprocal links auto-generated with @mentions

Hi, not sure this is already out there, but I am really missing the automatic reciprocal links to entities in Coda when I use an @mention to reference a section or row in Coda. This was a functionality that was extremely useful in my use of Confluence/Jira, which I am moving off of in favor of Coda. One use of this would be in meetings. I frequently want to reference an item anywhere across Coda, not just from one table, so @mentioning is a superior way to reference vs. lookup tables, which l…

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Column Type "Row"

Sorry if this is already out there as a request - I searched the community though and couldn’t find explicit mention of it. I am trying to use Coda for Product/Team management, and really missing the ability to relate any row in a doc to any other. It’s been a limitation for me to have to fall back on lookups between tables, meaning that I can’t easily relate a row to any other if I have say 10+ tables, and I intend many more in fact in the Team Mgmt doc I am trying to create, unless I have 10…

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[Feature Request] Relationship Column (alongside Lookup Column)

Lookup column provides us with a 1-way “relationship”, as in, we can set a relationship from table A to table B. However, a proper relationship column would be one that automatically creates a column in the referenced table that holds all references to a row in that table. I.e.: if I create a Parent Relationship to a Table A from Table B, Table A would get an auto-generated column relationship back to A. I could then alter the name on that column afterwards. Benefits: This would allow editin…

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Convert text in Canvas into Row item in any table in a doc

…and interestingly this app that the community is hosted on, discourse, does the reciprocal linking! If you click the link in my post above, there’s an embedded link right back here!

Would be curious to get your thoughts on this. I’d hoped it would be a simpler technical implementation for Coda than what sounds like a challenge to bring in some of the way Roam works when you type and generate deep references automatically. In essence, all I’d like to see is the referenced entity in Coda out of @mention have basically a notation about that reference somewhere in its canvas. Krunal from Coda once pointed out to me that you can even see all references as you search for a row. I am petitioning anywhere I can for Coda to introduce this feature, I really need it!

And I really love the way the app hosting the community, Discourse, does this! In fact I just created 4 new ones right now, haha!

PS I have some experience with Elastic as in my day job my company handles classified ads listings and we use Elastic both as a db, and as our search service.

Cheers Bill!