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AdminEntry
Qrew Cadet
8 years ago

Create a button that saves the current record and adds a new record to the same table

In this application users need to add multiple records containing some similar values. In order to prevent them from having to enter the same information again and again on each record they create, I ...
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
8 years ago
The Native functionality under the More button to Add Similar, will carry forward any data from a a saved record in fields where the field property is checked to copy the value forward, which is the default behaviour.

The record, however, must be saved first.

If you want to make a URL formula button to replicate thus functionality so the users do not need to look for the More button you can use this Syntax.

URLRoot() & "db/" & dbid() & "?a=GenCopyRecord&rid=" & totext([Record ID#])