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HALEYHALEY
Qrew Trainee
8 years ago

Connected tables: Is it possible to set up a connection with 20 tables channeling data into one connected table?

Hello, I am working with a document library. There are 20 tables, and different users have permission to access different tables. All records have file attachments. I would like to set up a c...
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
8 years ago
A sync table can only have 1 source.  But you could have 20 Actions on 20 tables to create a record in the centralized table.  The centralized table can have a formula to link back to the original document such that wen clicked, it will display the file attachment even though the file attachment is not actually on the centralized table.
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HALEYHALEY
Qrew Trainee
8 years ago
OK, I appreciate your help.

One last attempt: if I were to set up 20 relationships, a "Keywords" lookup field for each relationship (words separated by commas, or just words without commas), and run a report on the keywords. Do you have recommendations on how to make the search more effective? So that a person looking for a document can type in a chain of words and actually get a few relevant results?