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Re: Roles and permissions

Ok, so your employee record will need to have a summary up to the Parent Organization. I would use your current field [This is Me] for this. Then you will need to do a Lookup field from the Vendor Organization to the Customer Organization of the [This is Me] Summary field you just created.
Your permissions will need to look at both of these fields to determine if the user can access the record, so that would be something like:
[Vendor - # of Me] >0 OR [Customer - # of Me]>0

You could also create a Formula Checkbox ([Can View]) on the Organizations table that uses this same formula and then just use the [Can View] checkbox in your custom permissions. ​​

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  • MarkShnier__You's avatar
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    I have only been paying half attention to this thread but take note that Quick Base does not allow the limiting of access to Parent records based on whether you have access to Children. That kind of permissions is too circular for QuickBase to handle. 

    I'm not sure if this comment applies to your situation because I've been tied up elsewhere but I just wanted to throw that out there.

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