Connect multiple tables with the same reference

Hi all,

i am pretty new to Appsheet, so far really an impressive Tool.

I stumbled onto the following problem and wasnt able to solve it (even though i really searched in existing threads and documentation).

Lets say i have three tables as my data, purpose of App is to simply create comments for employees.

One table has the names per emloyee-ID, second table has the department per employee-ID. Third table is were the app user can enter comments for an employee-ID.

I now want to reference all three tables via the employee-ID, so that the user can open a form view to enter comments in the app. In this view the user first enters the employee-ID and then it will automatically display the right name and departments of this employee-ID.

So really a simple use case, connecting 3 tables via the same reference. Each ID can of course only have one name and one department.

I didnt manage to accomplish this, connecting 2 tables is not a problem but 3 didnt work. I tried it e.g. via a virtual column but i can only reference to the table which is chose when specifying the referenced table after setting data typ to "Ref" for PersonalID.

Data Explorer Screen for better understanding:

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Thanks in advance for any help.

 

 

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Thanks Marc

i followed you advice and discovered "Chained dereference expressions", which is what i was looking for. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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