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SarahBurres's avatar
SarahBurres
Qrew Trainee
4 years ago

Unique ID of child for associated Parent

Relationship: Orders have many Defects

I have made a snapshot record that takes the maximum number of child (Defect) associated with the parent (Order) and that becomes the new record ID for the Defect.  
"CR-"&[Order]&"-"&[Snapshot]

The issue is that if the user deletes a child record, then there become duplicate Defect numbers. 


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Sarah Burres
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  • BlakeHarrison's avatar
    BlakeHarrison
    Qrew Captain
    4 years ago
    If your setup is Orders<Defects, I'm unclear why you're using a Snapshot of the Summary of Max Record ID# from the Defects. Could you not just use the Record ID#? 

    Also, I would encourage you to create a way for your users to mark a record as "Invalid" or something similar instead of giving them the ability to delete. This way, you have all of your historical data that you can look back on.


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