Owen, we must be missing something about what you are trying to do.
I just launch an Add Parent button and while in Add mode ( and having set my Table Properties Advanced settings to Automatically save Parent when child is added), I clicked to
Add Child with this code
URLRoot() & "db/" & [_DBID_CHILD] & "?a=API_GenAddRecordForm&_fid_7=" & URLEncode ([Record ID#]) & "&dfid=10"
& "&z=" & Rurl()
I was able to save the child and upon save was returned to the parent in edit mode.
How is your workflow different than mine?
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