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Strange Behaviour For M:M Relationships In Filter Criteria For Views

Here’s an interesting difference that I have noticed when using the new filter criteria in views following the Release Wave 1 2020.

It is quite difficult to determine when multiple M:M relationships are created between the same parent and related entities.

Steps To Reproduce The Issue

  1. Create a M:M relationship between account and contact and call it Blog Contact using the Custom Display property of the relationship. NB: In order to get to the Custom Display property of the relationship, you will have to use the Classic Interface (more to come in another blog post where I will compare the Classic and Power Apps interface).
  2. Create another M:M relationship between account and contact and call it Blog Contact 1.
  3. Open the All Accounts View in the Power Apps interface and edit the filter criteria.
  4. The M:M relationships all have the same display name “Contacts”.
  5. Open the All Account View using the Classic interace and edit the filter criteria.
  6. We can now distinguish between the two M:M relationships i.e. Blog Contacts and Blog Contacts 1.

So, this is definitely one for the Power Platform team to look at 🙂