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JessicaFeauto2
Qrew Cadet
9 years ago

Formula to number each child record as related to parent record

I want to number each child record for a given parent.  More specifically, I have many Line Items (child) that all below to Proposals (parent).  I want the first Line Item for each Proposal to be numb...
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
9 years ago
That method will not work for importing records - only when adding manually.  Form Rules only apply when manually editing records.

There may be some hope of doing something similar with snapshot fields, but I'm pretty sure that the lookup will not snapshot in until all the records are saved so they would all end up being the same line number.