Bi-directional links in database properties
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Kay Elby
I would like to be able to have a parameter in a database that links bi-directionally to a parameter on the linked object. (Notion does this really well, for an example.)
For a use case example, if I have a People db, with a parents parameter, I would love to be able to link this param to a "children" parameter. The idea being that I could link Person1 to Person2 as their parent, and Person1 would automatically have Person2 linked as a child rather than having to apply all these links in both directions.
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Steffen Bleher
Thanks for voting on this ticket.
We just released an updated "What's next" article. You can read it here: https://capacities.io/roadmap/whats-next
Bi-directional links are on our roadmap, they are planned and will come part of Capacities but please don't expect them within the next months.
Steffen Bleher
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Steffen Bleher
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Relations in databases
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A. Valerio Buda
just like in notion being able to put a property in an object relating to another object from another database
Beth
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2 way relations for Single-select and Multi-select
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Ark Wild
When adding a single of multiselect that is linked to another object, add a option to "mirror" the select to the linked object. Mirroring would create a new property in the object linking back to the original object. When removing the relation/link from one object, it should also remove it in the other object
Basically Notion's two-way relation
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Tim Heymans
Marked as "Planned" since December 2022 and still not there? 🤔
I can't even do simple things in Capacities like tracking books I've read: when I link the author to the book, I have to go over to the book and link the author manually again!
This is crazy. 😕
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Neo 😎
This is much desire thing to get lot of functionality and relations of data for efficient storing and filtering data like notion .. Need fast
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Jess Carey
Can't wait for this to be added! Like another person said, this is the only thing I'm "missing"
Luca Joos
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Linked Objects (Relation)
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Bilal Hallab
It would be great to create a linked object feature.. for example in a table called "Dictionary" .. i have a field (property) for Definition and another field for Antonym, but the antonym itself is a word with its own definition.. so it would be great instead of having to write that word, to be able to select a word already in that table that fills as an antonym here and fills this word as an antonym there.. (Notion does this very well with "Relation" fields, i attached an example from Notion.. thanks!
Steffen Bleher
Thanks for voting on this ticket.
We just released an updated "What's next" article. You can read it here: https://capacities.io/roadmap/whats-next
Bi-directional links are on our roadmap, they are planned and will come part of Capacities but please don't expect them within the next months.
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Jame Healy
Steffen Bleher this is great, and I can't wait, but hopefully there will be more than one type of relationship (like Notion). i.e. Parent-Child/1:N, as well as two-way 1:1 peer relationship (like "Related Pages").
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Suzannah Porter
Steffen Bleher,
I am really confused. I am trying to understand why this isnt considered an essential feature. If the concept is prioritizing the networked note, the way concepts are connected to each other, how could many to many relationships be an afterthought? An event has many people/ one person goes to many events, a pet has multiple parents and a parent has multiple pets, a paper has many authors and an author can have many papers, .... i mean....this is foundational. I've been doing databases for a long time: and I know that many to many in the back end isnt as easy as one to many, but it is still essential. I've been a believer for a while but the idea that this is an afterthought kinda makes me a bit of a doubter. The idea that I have to manually make these connections and remember that when I link an author to a paper that I have to go to backlinks and manually go to the paper and add the author...thats double work that feels unnecessary. I am grateful for so many of the features, but this feels a lot like a 101 that got dropped for shiny things. I don't need AI to write me a blog post, I need an application to have many code snippets and code snippets to have many applications that it fits, and everyone else needs this too. It's far from niche.
edit: this got written because I, like many others, have to take a full stock of all the subscriptions I pay, and they have to have multiple functions. This lack of feature keeps me from cutting notion. And it's hard to keep both just because I need this one, foundational, database-101 feature. In the coming months, I wont be the only one having to make this choice.
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Kuntal Go
With a Bi-directional property linking system in place, these features will be easier to implement but very useful for the users:
- Sub-task / Sub-object
- Dependencies / Blockers
- SELF REFERENCING Query & Object Reference(Embeds) [[ It would be amazing to have Self referencing Object reference in Templates ]]
- Rollup / Secondary Data fetching from One object to another
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Dean Bigbee
Completely agree. This is the one area where Notion feels like a better relational tool than capacities.
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