sap.ui.commons.Link doesn't work in Binding - sapui5

Question

I have a table when I try to bind the column of this table to a json data. It works in one of my tables and in other tables it doesn't show anything. I checked content and the way I get the json data and it is exactly the same in all tables.
oTable.addColumn(new sap.ui.table.Column({
label: new sap.ui.commons.Label({text: "Names"}),
template:
new sap.ui.commons.Link({
text:"{name}",
})
}));
the table that shows the content sits in shell and other tables that show nothing sit inside sap.ui.ux3.ThingGroup. I am wondering if the reason that I don't see the binding is because of ThingGroup or not? because as soon as I change the sap.ui.commons.Link to sap.ui.commons.TextView it works.
The cut down version of my code is:
addLayerTable: function(){
var jsonData1 = {
"layers" : []
};
$.getJSON(URI, {}).done(function(data) {
if(data.layers !== undefined){
$.each(data.layers, function(i, field) {
jsonData1.layers.push({
"name" : field
});
});
}
layerDetailPage(jsonData1);
}).fail(function() {
alert("Error while reading layers Data or layers do not exist");
});
var oTable = new sap.ui.table.Table({
rows:{
path:"/layers",
},
width: "900px",
visibleRowCount: 10,
navigationMode : sap.ui.table.NavigationMode.Paginator
});
oTable.addColumn(new sap.ui.table.Column({
label: new sap.ui.commons.Label({text: "Names"}),
template:
new sap.ui.commons.Label({
text:"{name}"
})
}));
function layerDetailPage(layerData){
var oModel = new sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel();
oModel.setData(layerData);
sap.ui.getCore().setModel(oModel, "layerModel");
oTable.setModel(oModel);
};
var oFC1 = new sap.ui.ux3.ThingGroup();
oFC1.addContent(oTable);
return oFC1;
}
As soon as I change the sap.ui.commons.Label to TextView, names become visible. but at the moment nothing. Funny enough if I add a press function to my table and try to get the name of the row in the table it works although it is not visible.