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I have a contact list where one of the fields is “Referred to…” to show how I got into contact with someone. What I want is a two-way link for “Referred to/by”, like so:


   Name   | Referred To | Referred By
---------------------------------------
Jim | Amy |
Amy | | Jim
Bob | |

For example, if we have three names in the table, eg.


Jim
Amy
Bob

Jim introduced me to Amy, so have it as


Jim | Amy
Amy
Bob

The problem is, when I link Jim to Amy, I want another column that shows that same relationship in reverse, a “referred by…” field. So it would look like:


   Name   | Referred To | Referred By
---------------------------------------
Jim | Amy |
Amy | | Jim
Bob | |

So far, I’ve been unsuccessful at doing this. I’ve tried using Lookup but it only finds itself.


Any ideas?

The feature you’re looking for doesn’t exist in Airtable, although everybody has been wanting it for years. Please be sure to email support@airtable.com to ask them to please add this feature into the product.


In the meantime, you can use this script created by @openside:


https://builtonair.com/script/same-table-linked-records-backlinks/


I guess that’s a “solution”, but it’s not really what I was hoping for. Free plan doesn’t allow for scripting, I believe. Bummer. I emailed them about it. Thank you for the help.


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