V8-archive: Tableview fields empty

[Fusseldieb]

Hi,
I've enjoying Directus so far, but one thing which I couldn't find any solution for is that when I'm "playing" around with fields and stuff, suddenly the list view doesn't show anything anymore, like below:

But if I click on it, I can clearly see the text:

And when this happens, I can rename and change stuff around as much as I want, it doesn't come back...

What is happening? Is this a bug or is this only some sort of misconfiguration?

Thanks in advance!

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Directus 8.8.1
Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS
MySQL Ver 8.0.22
Using the app inside Chrome 86.0.4240.111 x64

[rijkvanzanten]

I've seen this happen sometimes where a relational field was setup incorrectly which in turn makes the API try to return it as a relational field instead of raw data. Could you try checking directus_relations in the DB for anything funny?

[Fusseldieb]

try checking directus_relations in the DB for anything funny

Yep, that solved it. It had a "loose" entry from a earlier relational "experiment" there. I deleted the suspicious entry (the entry with the field name) and it came right back :)

To future readers: If your field is NOT relational (if it's a normal text or dropdown field without any link to another table) and the field name appears inside the directus_relations table, it's a loose entry and you can delete it (You can access this table by enabling hidden tables inside Directus, or with your favourite SQL manager)

Since it's still a bug, should I close this issue or leave it open?

[rijkvanzanten]

We can leave it open as it's technically a problem in v8. I've already tackled this in the upcoming v9 by not even allowing to setup relations to non-relational fields and making sure old relations get deleted when you delete a field 🙂

[Fusseldieb]

We can leave it open as it's technically a problem in v8. I've already tackled this in the upcoming v9 by not even allowing to setup relations to non-relational fields and making sure old relations get deleted when you delete a field 🙂

That's great news! Thank you so much for the incredibly fast response and for your help.
Directus, and everyone working on developing it (including you) are a godsend 💯

Keep up the great work :)