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JoshuaTate
Qrew Cadet
8 years ago

Create a Parent from Child using fields from Child then pass New Parent Record ID to Related Parent ID under Child to link them

Hello QB Community, I have a Child record called SOW that i would like to use data from to generate a Parent record called Work Package then take the generated Parent Record ID and pass it into the f...
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JoshuaTate's avatar
JoshuaTate
Qrew Cadet
8 years ago
Thank you so much - sometimes it takes an extra pair of eyes to see a mistake. Do you know of any compiler type program that can pick up syntax errors like this? I currently use Notepad++ set with Javascript for formatting but doesn't have syntax (that i am aware of)
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_anomDiebolt_
Qrew Elite
8 years ago
Notepad++ is fine for the size of code used with QuickBase. There may be a plugin for Notepad++ - maybe this:

http://www.sunjw.us/jstoolnpp/

Someone recently published a script that synced a more professional IDE to QuickBase code pages but that is probably overkill. I forget the details. People have flame wars over their preferred editor / IDE so offering an opinion is worthless.

One thing that would help your forum posting is to always run code through jsbeautifier using two space indention and after pasting the code into the forum selected it and hit the "pre" button on the forum toolbar.
 $.get(dbidSOW, {
     act: "API_EditRecord",
     rid: F3,
     _fid_114: WRrid
   })
   .then(function(xml) {
     console.dirxml(xml);
   });
This will help make your code more readable and avoid escaping problems introduced by the forum. It also helps my robot to parse the messages so I can file my activity and developments reports to the mothership.