Hello, I’m looking up my data today on a same view I was consulting yesterday, but one of the fields says “Circular reference between primary fields for action type and action type. Change Primary Field.” Super confused :confused: The field in question is a list referring to other things (act…

Hello, everyone, Our team has recently deployed a fix for this. Please do test this in your applications to ensure the behavior meets your expectations.

Same bug for me this morning ! also, looking at some data, there is an alarming “deleted thing” in the field Created By. Here a couple of screen shots [Schermata 2020-10-07 alle 08.27.45] [Schermata 2020-10-07 alle 08.30.33] Hope that @jess and the Bubble team will be able to solve it soon. But…

@stefanof Please submit a bug report.

I have seen the deleted thing in an app and also the circular reference. Does anyone know if this is causing any further bugs or deeper issues?

Hey folks! We’re aware of this issue, and it has been escalated to our engineering team for a fix. If you’re seeing this and would like updates, please email our team ( support@bubble.io ) so that we can add you to the existing ticket!

Hi @jess , in my app it looks like the circular references in the list fields are gone. But the “deleted thing” text in the Created By field is still there (but not in all tables). [Schermata 2020-10-07 alle 16.22.15]

Hello @jess Thank you for the fix. :partying_face:

@jess still there for me. In Dev environment though [image]

Circular reference between primary fields

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JohnMark October 7, 2020, 9:09am 18

Hi @eve

I’m not going to submit a bug report, but every link to a list has the same error.

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Circular reference between primary fields

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