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TestAccount
Qrew Trainee
7 years ago

Quick Base Action: Edit Related Records is disabled

Given two tables with a parent-table relationship, I'd like to create an action that updates a parent field when a child record changes.  I tried to use a QB Action for this, but the "edit related rec...
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
7 years ago
One option is to use an Automation.

The second option is to create a areport Link field on your child table to match

Related parent on the left

With the Record ID If the parent on the right.

Once you have a report link field the edit related record will not be greed out.
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TestAccount
Qrew Trainee
7 years ago
HHhmmm....interesting...
I created a report link and used an automation to update a parent field...it seems to work for adding/modifying a child record...but fails when deleting a child record...