# Table name changes if modified with new item

**URL:** <https://forum.sambapos.com/t/table-name-changes-if-modified-with-new-item/20063>\
**Category:** V5 Question\
**Created:** [May 14, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/table-name-changes-if-modified-with-new-item/20063 "2019-05-14T18:05:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![digeratimvp](https://forum.sambapos.com/user_avatar/forum.sambapos.com/digeratimvp/32/51966_2.png) [@digeratimvp](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/digeratimvp)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/table-name-changes-if-modified-with-new-item/20063/3 "2019-05-14T18:40:47Z")

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I followed this tutorial

> [@Changing Table Button Captions](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/changing-table-button-captions/6927):
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> In this tutorial I’ll show you how to change Table Screen buttons to display things other than Table Number. As you know Table’s are Entities and Table selection buttons color determined by Entity States. When we create a new Ticket, Table Entity’s State becomes New Orders and it displayed as Orange color. On V5 other than button Color, button caption can also be changed by configuring a Display Format for state. So when we create a ticket, both table color and caption ca…

And here is my setup.

 ![image](https://forum.sambapos.com/uploads/default/original/3X/5/b/5bd852ac8355e5f3a084dce9262f2ffed310ccac.png)

Is there a better way for the servers to be able to keep up with what tables they have?  
This is how many POS systems work and its currently the best way for multiple people to see who has what.

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