Hello, I’m a new user, and I’ve read several posts about how to link fields. None of the suggestions seem to work for me. Perhaps I’m missing something obvious.

I have a base that tracks host families. One table has general admin information about the families including their current hosting status. I’m setting up another table to track availability in different quarters. I linked the status field from admin information table to the availability table. Nothing is auto filling. I understand auto fill may be the issue, but when I try to manually enter the information I get the “Look up fields should be configured in the field menu drop down” and when I try to copy and paste from the source table, I get the message “Can’t paste into this field. The destination field is computed.” These are two recommendations I’ve read about

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It works in another table, and I can’t figure out what’s different. As I recall, the field simply filled. When I change the original table the linked data updates automatically. This must be simpler than I am making it.

Left image on screen shot - original source, upper right screen shot shows where the linking works, bottom left shows what I’ve done, but no data fills and I can’t get the data there.