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JacobJacob
Qrew Cadet
8 years ago

Add Child Record from Gen Add Record Form and View Child Record

Hello, I have a process where users will add a new record and then from that add record form they need to be able to add a child record and have that parent record ID be related to that child recor...
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
8 years ago
I think that this is low tech.

Go to the settings for the Parent table, Advanced Settings and check the box for

"Save Parent record automatically when a child record is added."

Then the default behaviour will be to return to the Parent record after saving the Child.

If you want to stick on view mode on the child after saving, then edit the Add Child code to comment out or remove that last part which says 

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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
8 years ago
ie you can be in Add mode and Add Child and the Parent record will save automatically and the child will automatically connect to the Parent.