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Dropdowns expand unintentionally while exploring tables with reverse fks #4724

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@Anish9901

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  • Explore the "Employees" table from the "Ice Cream Employee Management" dataset.
  • Add a column from base table, and a column from the "Timesheets" table
  • Summarize the column as list.
  • Notice that the "Schedules" table dropdown is expanded.

Apart from the steps above, the video shows the worst case scenario where tables with a lot of columns get expanded causing trouble to find the correct columns to explore.

Screen.Recording.2025-08-28.at.1.57.15.AM.mov

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None of the dropdowns should unexpectedly expand.

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This issue seems to occur when base table that's being explored only has reverse foreign keys on the base table.

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    affects: uxRelated to user experiencereadyReady for implementationtype: bugwork: frontendRelated to frontend code in the mathesar_ui directory

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