nocodb/packages/noco-docs/content/en/setup-and-usages/lookup.md

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Lookup

Sample simple Organization structure

• 5 departments (company departments), each department has a team name & associated team code. Vertical has many Employees - relationship has been defined

• 5 employees working at different departments

Now, we can explore how to extract team-code information in Employee table using LOOKUP columns

Adding a lookup column

1. Add new column

Click on '+' icon to the left of column headers in Employee table

2. Feed column name

3. Select column type as 'Lookup'

4. Choose child table

Table Verticals in our example

5. Select child column

6. Click on 'Save'

7. Required information is populated in the newly created column

Nested Lookup

On top of the previous structure, let's introduce one more table - Project which contains ProjectName and each employee can be assigned with multiple projects. If we want to include the lookup column TeamCode from Employee in Project, we can create a nested lookup.

We can apply the same steps to create the lookup column TeamCode in table Project. This time we choose the lookup column created previously in table Employee as a child table.

Click save. Then TeamCode is populated in table Project.