Collection types with a relation to types that have Color custom field only show the hexcode in CM?

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On Strapi, I have a collection type for teams and colors.
In each team you can select a color from another collection type, team colors.
The teams have a 1 to 1 relationship to these colors. I gave the colors a text field (also tried with an enumeration field) for a name and a color field for easy selection of colors that I can work with in code.

For some reason Strapi only shows the hexadecimal value from these colors when trying to select colors for a given team.
I want these to show names, as that is a much more manageable way for users to actually relate to these colors.
How come I’m stuck with the hexcode? Changing anything in the view does nothing, changing the order of the fields also does absolutely nothing.

What gives?<:strapipurple:822103757403586622>

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Try using components.
Create a component with name and color fields and use it.

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I found the solution just now actually. You have to go: Content-Type Builder → Team (or whatever CT you have) → Configure the view → Edit the color field and change the Entry Title there.

The fact that you have two different Entry Title “options” is so confusing, but I finally got my relation dropdown working.