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QuickBaseCoachD
7 years agoQrew Captain
I suggest having the rule only fire when the field you want to populate is blank, and also unchecking that innocuous checkbox at the bottom that says to only fire when the record changes.
- PabloDarna7 years agoQrew TraineeHi,
I have tried but still not working.
The reasons is that it seems that the values of system fields (Record owner, Record ID, etc) is allocated to the record at the end of the saving process when the record is first added.
I believe, the form rules applies sometime before this allocation, and therefore, that is why they do not work because the condition cannot be applied as Record owner is still blank when it run. When the record is created, edited and saved again, then the rule runs correctly. - EvanMartinez7 years agoModeratorHave you tried setting up a Formula-user field with the function for current user User() and set it up to pass that value along when that Lookup field isn't populated as an alternative? That way it should be able to capture the current user, who should be the record owner upon save, and pass it along since the formula can evaluate before the save.
- PabloDarna7 years agoQrew TraineeTxs Evan. It worked but using Formula E-mail totext(User()). Then the rule applies upon the adding the record.
Reason is that the key field in my "Employee" table is the e-mail.