Apologies, I may have miscommunicated.
User accesses system A to download a list of drawing #s and sheet #s; 2 fields total. They do not have permissions in this system to check out the actual drawings themselves, so they need to contact our team via Quickbase (previously done via email). To do so, they go into Quickbase filling out request details and then there is an "Add Drawing" button where they can add children records for each drawing they are wanting out of system A. Sometimes they only need a handful of drawings, so the "Add Drawing" button is sufficient. But occasionally the list of drawings can get to 100+ and that would be very tedious for them to add a child record 100 times. So I'm trying to figure out how to enable them to do a bulk import using their excel sheet (or a template provided to them) so they can create these 100 children records and have them all be related to the same parent.
The only inbetween solution I can think of is to make the children report a grid editable report. But if I remember correctly, the new forms in Quickbase do not support that feature currently.
I'd really like to avoid the bulk import if possible because that can just lead to a number of issues and would require instructions and training for users who are not familiar with Quickbase; which would be most of them. But I'm thinking that (or some variation of it) is the only solution, unfortunately.
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Curtis Middleton
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