# Show "backlinked" records (within same table)?
**URL:** https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264
**Category:** Baserow Help
**Created:** [August 28, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264 "2022-08-28T21:36:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@archaeoceti](https://community.baserow.io/u/archaeoceti)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264/1 "2022-08-28T21:36:40Z")
Hello!
Short version - I am using the “link to table” field and am wondering if it there is any automated way to see which other records are linked to a particular record (without filling them all in manually).
A little more detail - I am using Baserow as a research tool for a historical legal database. Thanks to the “link to same table” feature (I was so glad to see this added recently!) I have been able to better link “law B” to its precedent “law A.” However, I am not sure if there is a way to show on “law A” what other later laws use it as a precedent. I have tried to use “lookup” but did not get anything working.
[ETA - just to clarify, these records are all within the same table]
I am very new to all of this so apologies in advance for any confusing language or if there is an answer in the forums / knowledge base already (I had searched but as I am still new to all this, I don’t always know exactly what terms I should even look for).
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@olgatrykush](https://community.baserow.io/u/olgatrykush)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264/2 "2022-08-30T17:14:35Z")
Hello @archaeoceti! First of all, welcome to the Baserow community 👋
In Baserow, when linking records that are stored in different tables, it will auto-create a field on the other table showing backlinked records. However, when creating links within the same table, it does not generate a “backlinked” field. Is it the functionality you’re referring to? Just want to make sure I understood your use case correctly 😅
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### Author:  [@archaeoceti](https://community.baserow.io/u/archaeoceti)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264/3 "2022-10-24T00:47:46Z")
Hi there - apologies for the late reply! Yes it was, thank you anyway!
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### Author:  [@tombaumrt](https://community.baserow.io/u/tombaumrt)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264/4 "2025-12-09T14:55:16Z")
Hello,
1. Is it planned to incorporate this feature?
2. Is it possible to achieve the expected result using a formula or other?
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### Author:  [@olgatrykush](https://community.baserow.io/u/olgatrykush)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264/5 "2025-12-10T09:56:34Z")
Hello @tombaumrt, what feature are you referring to? 🙂
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### Author:  [@tombaumrt](https://community.baserow.io/u/tombaumrt)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264/6 "2025-12-10T13:43:58Z")
The feature described in the first post corresponds, it seems to me, to what I want to do.
I have a list of suppliers working together (same table).
I would like to create a column that displays the “clients of”, but I can’t create this field.
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### Author:  [@olgatrykush](https://community.baserow.io/u/olgatrykush)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2025, 11:06am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264/7 "2025-12-11T11:06:28Z")
Hello @tombaumrt, the table you’re trying to reference in the Lookup field — was it previously connected to this table via a Link-to-table field?
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### Author:  [@tombaumrt](https://community.baserow.io/u/tombaumrt)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264/8 "2025-12-12T13:48:47Z")
The “FOURNISSEUR DE” field points to the same table via link-to-table.
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### Author:  [@olgatrykush](https://community.baserow.io/u/olgatrykush)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264/9 "2025-12-12T15:27:21Z")
And you don’t see this field here in the list, correct:
Can you share what you see when you click on the dropdown in the lookup field?
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### Author:  [@tombaumrt](https://community.baserow.io/u/tombaumrt)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264/10 "2025-12-12T15:47:09Z")
That’s it, but I don’t know if it’s a good solution to bring up the list of companies that are “CUSTOMER OF”
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### Author:  [@olgatrykush](https://community.baserow.io/u/olgatrykush)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/show-backlinked-records-within-same-table/1264/11 "2025-12-12T15:51:02Z")
Hey @tombaumrt, this is working as expected. You select the ‘FOURNISSEUR DE’ table and then choose the field you want to display. That’s how the lookup field works: [Lookup field in Baserow](https://baserow.io/user-docs/lookup-field)