I am wondering how people would go about this kind of scenario:
I have several tables in baserow
Each of those table contains references to each other using the Link to table feature in hierarchies (like Table A containing towns, Table B containing adresses Link to table towns, Table C containing people Link to table B)
I want to use the API to be able to get for example “give me the town that person x lives in based on the persons email”
Do I really need to multiple API requests for this? E.g. first use the API of Table C to get the person x based on email, then based on the information on the linked table b that is returned I need to do a API call to either Table A or B to check the town? Any smart work arounds?
This can be solved with lookup fields. This type of field allows you to link multiple columns of a certain table. For example:
Table A contains info about cities
This table has a link with cities, but I also added a Lookup field so that the ZIP code is also shown in the table and will be available through the API
I have a link with an address an use 2 lookup fields. One for the city and one for the ZIP code. The reason that I can also refer to the ZIP code is because it is already a Lookup field in Table B.
