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MichaelHorwitz
Qrew Trainee
7 years ago

Linking Tables When Reference Field Already Exists

I imported two spreadsheets into two separate tables, Districts and Schools. Each District has a District ID field and each School Record also has a corresponding District ID field. There are multiple...
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
7 years ago
no problem,

Set the Key field of the District to be the [District ID] field.

Just make a relationship where 1 District has many Schools. 

Quick Base will helpfully offer to make a new data entry field called [Related District] and if you want to do 18,000 manual edits and maintain them in purpetuity, you can accept that offer or else you can say no thanks, and select a field on your school record to use to make that connection. [District ID] would be an excellent choice.