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Title: NocoDB 2026.05.0 - Multi-column form layouts, custom display values on linked records, and multi-field link picker search returns

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Hey r/NocoDB,

2026.05.0 is out. Three things worth pulling out:

1. Multi-Column Field Layout in forms

Form fields have always stacked one per row, which works for short surveys but turns longer forms into endless scrolls. With this release you can drag any field card onto another field's row in the form builder, and they snap to equal-width columns sharing that row. Up to 5 fields per row.

First / last / email on one line. City / state / zip on another. The layout carries through to the shared form URL, with rows automatically collapsing to a single column on mobile. Long Text, Attachment, and JSON fields stay full-width since their inputs are too tall or wide to share.

Available on Plus plan and above on cloud, and with Enterprise license on self-hosted.

2. Custom Display Value on linked records

A Link to Another Record field has always shown the primary display value of the linked table (usually a name or title). With this release you can override that on a per-link basis and pick any column from the linked table to show instead.

Two contacts share a name? Show email instead. Finance needs an account's external ID for reconciliation? Show the ID column. Support wants the customer tier on the pill? Easy.

The override applies everywhere a linked record appears: cell pills in grid, gallery, and kanban; the link picker dropdown; expanded forms; calendar and timeline inline cards; map view tooltips; audit log entries on link and unlink events; and references in search, filter, sort, group-by, and formula. The setting is preserved across export, import, and base duplication.

Available on Plus plan and above on cloud, and with Enterprise license on self-hosted.

3. Multi-field search is back in the link picker

In 2026.04.0 we scoped link picker search down to the display value column only, citing reliability concerns with secondary-field search. We promised to bring it back. With this release, search across multiple fields is restored, and the dropdown now uses virtual scrolling with a chunked cache so it stays smooth on tables with thousands of linked records.

Available across all plans.

Plus a few quality-of-life fixes: Timeline View updates in realtime when other collaborators add or move bars, NocoDocs no longer freezes on search and replace in very long documents, user cells in shared and public views no longer leak email addresses (only name and avatar), and form show-on-condition rules on V2 LTAR fields now evaluate against the display value (matching how they read in the form builder).

Full changelog: https://nocodb.com/docs/changelog/2026.05.0

Happy to answer questions in the thread.