Display record previews for foreign key cells

[seancolsen]

Current behavior

• A cell within a column having an FK constraint only displays the value of the target column.
• Because the target column is usually a primary key, users cannot easily identify linked records while viewing a table.

Desired behavior

• A "Record Preview" setting can be enabled.
• When Record Preview is enabled, the cell will show additional fields from the record, with special styling.

Specs

• Foreign Key Constraints Spec -- see Scenario 4a and Scenario 4b.

Status

• Blocked by Modify records API to return preview data for foreign key columns #946

[seancolsen]

@ghislaineguerin @kgodey Should we support record previews for multi-column FKs? This seems like a pretty clear "no" to me, but just thought I'd check.

[kgodey]

@ghislaineguerin @kgodey Should we support record previews for multi-column FKs? This seems like a pretty clear "no" to me, but just thought I'd check.

You are correct, not right now.

[seancolsen]

I'm closing this ticket because, as spec'ed, it is now so out-of-date with our current design that it no longer seems useful. The product goal that this ticket intended to address will now be addressed by the Record Summary feature and work work on the feature is being tracked more loosely in the features spreadsheet.