I posted this before but didn’t get any replies so wanted to try again as it’s something we need to work. If I have for example a “Leads” object, it then has a few look up fields, like “Assigned To” and “Sales Rep” which are User fields where you select a Bubble user from the drop down and it shows…

Hi @lmoreau , Use “Define primary display fields” to change the primary field of the table to anyother primary fields on that table like Account name. App editor -> Data -> App Data -> Primary Fields (popup will show to change the primary field of the each table.)

[image] manikandan: tor → Dat Just getting around to trying this now but it doesn’t work. I already have all my primary fields set there but it doesn’t work on CSV export, only if I export to CSV from the bubble editor. If I use a Workflow with a button that says export to CSV it doesn’t. […

Hi, try to use othe csv export options available on Plugins. otherwise please share the app editor, will check and get back to you.

Did anyone get a fix for this? Currently trying to download app data which includes users email, but is downloading as their unique id’s.

As mentioned somewhere above, if you set the primary field output to be something other than unique ID, you will get something different on CSV output. Witness: Click this: [image] Now set the primary field output for User from (for example) Unique ID to Email: [image] Just to make it ridicul…

[image] keith: Aside: About a minute of testing shows that this is the case. Test. Spend a minute testing this on literally any data type/field combination besides the User/email. Very different results :face_with_monocle:

Well then that’s perhaps a limitation that could be removed and that feature request could be made via the bug report form. Aside: I was surprised you could even get User’s email to appear in the output CSV, and seeing that assumed that manual CSV output respects the friendly field settings. But n…

RT^ it doesn’t work for other data types

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Hi Everyone, It is an old post, but I am unshoveling as I am surprised there is no solution to this “simple” problem. I have the same use case than @lmoreau as I want an app user to be able to export csv data. Therefore I am using a workflow and not the “export” button in the editor. The primary …

Export to CSV workflow, can I not change related objects fields from "unique_id"?

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morrismugwima May 17, 2026, 4:17am 14

I agree,

I opted for a plugin to get the data off the repeating groups.
Works like charm.

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Export to CSV workflow, can I not change related objects fields from "unique_id"?

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