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OliverKenfield
Qrew Member
4 years ago

Edit Record button doesn't work (a=er)

Hello, I have a button and when I use ?a=API_EditRecord&rid= it works, but of course saves the record. I would like the record to stay opened in Edit mode.  So when I use ?a=er&dfid=2&rid= it doesn't...
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MarkShnier__You's avatar
MarkShnier__You
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4 years ago
If you don't want it to save - which is the whole point of this button, then you need to do this with simple form rules instead.  You make a checkbox to trigger a form rule to do those changes, and then the last step of the form rule actions is to uncheck the checkbox.

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11013
Qrew Trainee
2 years ago

Regarding your last suggestion about accomplishing this via a DFR: I have a similar challenge, but one of the edits I want to make is to increment a numeric field by 1. I don't think a form rule can help me to do this. Am I overlooking something?