Unable to change display values in display model

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I'm unable to change the display values on a column in the display model.
The only option available is "Use original values".

There is data in these colomn, i have it in multiple columns.
Before this issue, i had the issue that it was not saving the values, they were always gone after a refresh of the page.

I'm on the latest version.

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Hi @cobalt
Metabase can currently only do remapping on numeric columns.
Can you post the details for the field from /api/field/:id where :id is the field ID, which you can see in the URL, when viewing the column details pages in Data Model.

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Hi, i'm not sure what you want me to do, i guess an api call?
I don't know how to do that.. i'm sorry.

But i can confirm to you that it is an numeric column as i did it before on the same column on a previous version.
I also was able to do it in this version, but had issues that it was not saving the values, and suddenly i was not able at all to set values.
I tried a lot of dropping the saved values and rescanning the field.

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@cobalt So when I go to Admin > Data Model > (db) > (table) > (column) :gear:, then the URL looks like this: /admin/datamodel/database/4/table/11/83/general
Now change the URL to /api/field/83 - where 83 is the column that I want to look at, which will be different on your system.

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@flamber
thanks for clearing that up.

Here you go:

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@cobalt I have never noticed this problem before, but it has existed for a long time. See the issue I just created for workaround:
https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/16322 - upvote by clicking :+1: on the first post

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@flamber
Thanks for the work-around. It works like that.