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Re: Button to Save record and open same it in different form view

Actually in thinking about this some more I think there is an elegant solution. All you are really saying is that you want to have a short form for ADD mode and in EDIT  mode do you want a longer form. So all you need to do is to have a single form and use a form rule to detect whether the user is an add or edit mode.

What I typically do in the situations is to make a field called [Record ID# mirror].  The formula will just be [Record ID#]

I have no idea why but using Dynamic Form Rules you may not access the [Record ID#] field but you can access a formula field that is based on the [Record ID#]. 

So just have a form rule which detects if the Record ID exists  (ie [Record ID# mirror] >0 ) , which means that the user is now in edit mode, in which case to show Tabs or Sections for editing those extra fields.



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  • PrashantMaheshw's avatar
    PrashantMaheshw
    Qrew Captain

    Thank you ! This is indeed an elegant solution . Will try this 

    Any elegant way to open added record in edit mode ? 



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