I created a relation between two tables. One is “organization” and one is “programs.” On the organization side, I can select programs in the relation column just like normal. On the program side, I can only select from multiple entries (pills), each labeled “model.” When I hover over the pill labeled “model,” I can see the correct hover-over-pop-up (whatever it’s called), but the text just says, “model.”
I searched for this topic, but all I could find was something to do with slack messages:
My slack message formula keeps out putting the word “model” - Ask the Community - Coda Maker Community.
Does anyone know what’s going on and how to fix it?
Maybe you could make a dummy doc (duplicate the doc + remove all sensitive information) and share it here? It would be much easier to tell you what’s the problem.
Sure. Here it is with everything removed.
As I was cleaning it up to remove extraneous columns & data, I figured out what the problem was. I’m putting it here for . . . entertainment value, I guess.
I somehow made a button column on the “Organizations” table the display column.
Notice that the “Organization(s)” column on the “Programs” page just says “model” for the entries. If you hover, though, you get the popup with the correct record. The same happens in the other two tables.
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Hi @Bruce_F_Donnelly … the doc isn’t editable so I can’t specifically check, but I have encountered this once before, and IIRC it was when I was playing around with button columns, and specifically set a button column as the “display column” to play with that idea. It didn’t go any further because of this very result 
. So I think that’s what’s happening for you here - in your “organizations” table one of the button columns is set as the display column for that table.
Hope that helps.
Hello @Bruce_F_Donnelly
The issue is that the display column of the Organizations table is set to a button column. Every reference to a row in the table is displayed using the designated display column.
When a button or control value is set as the display column, it will show “model” instead. To resolve this, right-click on a text column and select “Set as display column.”
Best regards
Arnhold
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Yes, thank you—and Rohan. As I mentioned just previously, I figured it out as I was removing extra columns I didn’t need. I have no idea how I changed the display column, but as soon as I made the button column visible the display column changed back to the correct column.
Anyway, it’s well documented in case someone else has the same problem.
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