W

hen working with reference fields, it is really important to understand how the display value for the reference field works.  The display value for a reference field is what the end user actually sees when they search in a reference field to produce an autocomplete dropdown and what they can see when a reference field gets populated.  Information about reference fields and reference field display values can be found here.

Some questions about display values that I hear very often are “How do I show information from more than one field for the display value?” or “Can I have different display values on 2 reference fields that reference the same table?”.  The limiting factor when answering these questions is that you’re limited to a single searchable display value per referenced table. What this means is that EVERY reference field that references a particular table needs to use that table’s display value so you cannot mix and match between reference fields.  There are a couple of options that can be used to provide a bit more information to the user in these scenarios however.