Bases: Table headings particular to a View

[erazlogo]

Use case or problem

Right now, when you create different views in a Base, you can only change the heading for a particular column across Views. I am using Bases in the sidebar, displaying various relationships to the current note, so headings for views displaying different types of relationships become misleading.

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In my specific case, a Glossary, I require different headings for note title (default heading “name” in Bases) in two Views–“Meaning,” for showing synonyms and “Pinned word,” for showing words I want to use in writing. But in a current setup I cannot do that so “Meaning” or “Pinned word” would stay in place even though it is irrelevant and misleading for the other view.

Proposed solution

It would be great if column headings were particular to Views in a Base.

Thanks!

[anon80950206]

Hello.

Can this be solved using separate formulas for each view? This seems to work in a local test vault:

```base
formulas:
  meaning: link(file.name)
  pinned: link(file.name)
views:
  - type: table
    name: meaning
    order:
      - formula.meaning
  - type: table
    name: pinned
    order:
      - formula.pinned

```

[erazlogo]

@anon80950206

link(file.name)

Thank you so much! I didn’t think of this. This solution is a bit convoluted but it works and solves my issue. Good to know for the future too.

[erazlogo]

Ok, this solution works for note titles, but I can’t figure out how to do that with dates. I.e. I’d like to use my start-date property for born-date when I view my people notes, and for scheduled-date when I view my task notes. How would I do that with a formula?

[kepano]

Making display names view-specific will not be implemented because it adds much more work in the normal case when you don’t want that.

If you want separate display names for the same property you can use separate bases or use formulas. Your formula can simply be propertyname and it will display that property with your label.