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Can I group by a column in a linked table?

  • September 1, 2018
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I have three tables:

Employee

  • name
  • linked column to their position

Positions

  • name
  • linked column to the department its in

Departments

  • name

Is there a way to create a grid view that groups the employees by departments?

So it would look something like this:

Sales
    Alice | Salesperson
    Bob | Salesperson
   Carla | Coordinator
Accounting
   Angela | Accountant
   Brett | Accounts Payable
   Caspar | Accounts Receivable
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  • September 1, 2018

I figured it out. For posterity and anyone else who might need it:

The way I solved it was to create a lookup field in the employee table that looked up the department in the linked positions table. This created a column directly in the employee that I could then use for grouping.

This is the help article I used for lookup fields


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I figured it out. For posterity and anyone else who might need it:

The way I solved it was to create a lookup field in the employee table that looked up the department in the linked positions table. This created a column directly in the employee that I could then use for grouping.

This is the help article I used for lookup fields


That is the way and what Lookup fields are for :winking_face: