I’m trying to create a link that takes a Skuid user to a specific page when they click on a person’s name. I don’t know that I necessarily want to override pages, as this will require more info than just the ID of the person’s Contact record. I figured I would just make a template with an HTML anchor tag that goes to another Skuid page. Here’s what my template field says: {{Student__c}} 
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How do I override a lookup/reference field link in a template?
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+13Short answer: wrap Student_Enrollment__c in triple mustaches / curly braces, and Skuid will output the plain, unformatted value of the Student_Enrollment__c relationship field:
<a href="/apex/skuid__UI?page=StudentDetail&seid={{{Student_Enrollment__c}}}">{{Student__r.Name}}</a>
Long Answer: whenever you use two curly braces around a field in a template, such as “{{Student__c}}”, Skuid will look at your Model to see if there’s a corresponding field, and if there is, it will use that field’s metadata to try to render the raw data in an appropriate format. Examples: (Datetime) 2012-12-31 14:05:08.003Z —> 31/12/2012 14:05 (in Britain) (Lookup field) 0030000004754AAA —> link to Jack Black’s Contact record, with Jack Black as the link text So, for your case, when you tried to put “{{Student_Enrollment__c}}” inside of an HTML link, you were actually getting a double link, because Skuid was trying to render a link to the Student_Enrollment__c record inside of your link. But, when you use triple mustaches, Skuid just spits out the raw data, not doing any rendering at all. Compare: {{{Student__c}}} ---->
0030000004754AAA
{{Student__c}} ---->
<a href="/0030000004754AAA">Jack Black</a>
Ahh, tricky, but handy! BTW, someone may want to edit the title of my post for future reference to something like “How do I override a standard field’s link in a template?”
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