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  • September 17, 2021
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This is a tough one to describe in one sentence. Basically, I have a group of people who “sponsor” one another. There is no real hierarchy. Person A could sponsor Person B who could sponsor Person C who could Sponsor Person A. Some Sponsors might have multiple Sponsees.

So I have one field, “Name”, and another Field “Their Sponsor” that links to the Name field. So I can see each Sponsee’s Sponsor, and what I would like is a way to see each Sponsor’s Sponsees, ideally in the same table. And, ideally, when the field “Their Sponsor” is updated, the “Sponsor’s Sponsees” field is automatically updated.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi @JasonF - have a look at this post - you can use Airtable Automations to make reciprocal links:

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  • September 17, 2021

Look at us having the exact same problem at exactly the same time.


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  • September 18, 2021

Hi @JasonF - have a look at this post - you can use Airtable Automations to make reciprocal links:


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  • September 19, 2021

Hi @JasonF - have a look at this post - you can use Airtable Automations to make reciprocal links:


Thank you, Jonathan. It looks like Automation is what I am looking for. I can’t quite work out a solution with automation (because the update record action doesn’t allowing adding to a record, only replacing), but I think that’s a subject for another thread.


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  • September 19, 2021

Thank you, Jonathan. It looks like Automation is what I am looking for. I can’t quite work out a solution with automation (because the update record action doesn’t allowing adding to a record, only replacing), but I think that’s a subject for another thread.


For those interested, that problem [update record action doesn’t allowing adding to a record, only replacing] has been solved :