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MarkShnier__You
Qrew Legend
6 years agoWhat is the definition of the "Previous Pole"
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- JordanMcAlister6 years agoQrew CaptainThe pole they collected before their current one. Every pole is a new field record collected. Telecommunication companies want to route their lines on utility poles, so our field technicians will walk pole to pole following the route the telecommunication company wants and they collect a bunch of information. In this case, one of the things they collect is distances to the adjacent poles to run stress and tension analysis tests. If pole A is connected to pole B, then the "ahead" span of pole A will be the "back" span of pole B. If they are on pole B then the previous pole is pole A and I want there to be an option to use the previous pole's "ahead" span information for the "back" span of their current pole - if that makes sense.
Let me know if I need to explain a little more - thanks.
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Qrew Legend
So this is may be doable.
You need to know the Record ID# of the most current record for the current user (I assume that the Key field is Record ID#)
Not tested but make a table and load up up with some users, well at least you. Set the Key field to be userid.
Relate that table to the details table via Record Owner. One User has many poles.
Get the Max Record ID#. Now you know the Record ID of the most recent Pole. Get the data you need up to that record via a summary fields or a reverse relationship.
Then make a relationship to the pole table based on a reference field of current user and look up the info from the last pole.
To self maintain that user table, you can set up an Automation to add a record into the table when a pole record is saved and the user does not exists.
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------------------------------- JordanMcAlister6 years agoQrew CaptainOne thing that may throw it off is that all the pole field records are created in advance when the poles are imported with the project. We have projects, poles, field collection and whenever a pole is imported into poles (usually 200 at a time) it automatically generates the pole field record. I do see where you are going with this though - is it kind of the same idea with the "click..click..click" report that needs a user table to be able to reference data between two separate tables?
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