diff --git a/app/client/components/LinkingState.js b/app/client/components/LinkingState.js
index 272c53f6..ddce580c 100644
--- a/app/client/components/LinkingState.js
+++ b/app/client/components/LinkingState.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ const _ = require('underscore');
 const ko = require('knockout');
 const dispose = require('../lib/dispose');
 const gutil = require('app/common/gutil');
+const {isRefListType} = require("app/common/gristTypes");
 
 /**
  * Returns if the first table is a summary of the second. If both are summary tables, returns true
@@ -65,7 +66,10 @@ function LinkingState(gristDoc, srcSection, srcColId, tgtSection, tgtColId, byAl
   // A computed that evaluates to a filter function to use, or null if not filtering. If
   // filtering, depends on srcSection.activeRowId().
   if (tgtColId) {
+    const tgtCol = tgtSection.table().columns().all().find(c => c.colId() === tgtColId);
+    const operations = {[tgtColId]: isRefListType(tgtCol.type()) ? 'intersects' : 'in'};
     if (byAllShown) {
+      // (This is legacy code that isn't currently reachable)
       // Include all values present in srcSection.
       this.filterColValues = this.autoDispose(ko.computed(() => {
         const srcValues = new Set();
@@ -88,13 +92,13 @@ function LinkingState(gristDoc, srcSection, srcColId, tgtSection, tgtColId, byAl
         this.filterColValues = this.autoDispose(ko.computed(() => {
           const srcRowId = srcSection.activeRowId();
           srcRowModel.assign(srcRowId);
-          return {filters: {[tgtColId]: [srcCell()]}};
+          return {filters: {[tgtColId]: [srcCell()]}, operations};
         }));
       }
     } else {
       this.filterColValues = this.autoDispose(ko.computed(() => {
         const srcRowId = srcSection.activeRowId();
-        return {filters: {[tgtColId]: [srcRowId]}};
+        return {filters: {[tgtColId]: [srcRowId]}, operations};
       }));
     }
   } else if (isSummaryOf(srcSection.table(), tgtSection.table())) {
diff --git a/app/client/ui/selectBy.ts b/app/client/ui/selectBy.ts
index 3af1e011..bcbaa082 100644
--- a/app/client/ui/selectBy.ts
+++ b/app/client/ui/selectBy.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import { ColumnRec, DocModel, ViewSectionRec } from 'app/client/models/DocModel';
+import { ColumnRec, DocModel, TableRec, ViewSectionRec } from 'app/client/models/DocModel';
 import { IPageWidget } from 'app/client/ui/PageWidgetPicker';
-import { removePrefix } from 'app/common/gutil';
+import { getReferencedTableId } from 'app/common/gristTypes';
 import { IOptionFull } from 'grainjs';
 
 // some unicode characters
@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ function createNodes(docModel: DocModel, sections: MaybeSection[]) {
 // Creates an array of LinkNode from a view section record.
 function fromViewSectionRec(section: ViewSectionRec): LinkNode[] {
   const table = section.table.peek();
-  const columns = table.columns.peek().peek();
   const ancestors = new Set<number>();
 
   for (let sec = section; sec.getRowId(); sec = sec.linkSrcSection.peek()) {
@@ -170,16 +169,7 @@ function fromViewSectionRec(section: ViewSectionRec): LinkNode[] {
     section,
   };
 
-  const nodes: LinkNode[] = [mainNode];
-
-  // add the column nodes
-  for (const column of columns) {
-    const tableId = removePrefix(column.type.peek(), 'Ref:');
-    if (tableId) {
-      nodes.push({...mainNode, tableId, column});
-    }
-  }
-  return nodes;
+  return fromColumns(table, mainNode);
 }
 
 // Creates an array of LinkNode from a page widget.
@@ -188,7 +178,6 @@ function fromPageWidget(docModel: DocModel, pageWidget: IPageWidget): LinkNode[]
   if (typeof pageWidget.table !== 'number') { return []; }
 
   const table = docModel.tables.getRowModel(pageWidget.table);
-  const columns = table.columns.peek().peek();
 
   const mainNode: LinkNode = {
     tableId: table.primaryTableId.peek(),
@@ -198,16 +187,18 @@ function fromPageWidget(docModel: DocModel, pageWidget: IPageWidget): LinkNode[]
     section: docModel.viewSections.getRowModel(pageWidget.section),
   };
 
-  const nodes: LinkNode[] = [mainNode];
+  return fromColumns(table, mainNode);
+}
 
-  // adds the column nodes
+function fromColumns(table: TableRec, mainNode: LinkNode): LinkNode[] {
+  const nodes = [mainNode];
+  const columns = table.columns.peek().peek();
   for (const column of columns) {
-    const tableId = removePrefix(column.type.peek(), 'Ref:');
+    const tableId = getReferencedTableId(column.type.peek());
     if (tableId) {
       nodes.push({...mainNode, tableId, column});
     }
   }
-
   return nodes;
 }