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JasonBeaver
Qrew Cadet
8 years ago

URL Button to add a child record to a parent record

I am needing to add a child record to a parent record with the click of a button. Need some help with the coding of this URL button.   I want this button to be pushed when the child record is to re...
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
8 years ago
Jason,
Can we rewind a bit?

Normally, you are sitting on a Parent Record and simply Add Child with the native built in Add Child button.

What is different about your situation?
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
7 years ago
I cannot see how you could natively click a button (while sitting on a child record) to create a Parent, obtain its Record ID#, and then populate that to the child record as [Related Parent] and save the child.

The issue is that with native URL formula buttons you do not have a way to listen for the record ID which for the newly created parent.

Can you tell me the use case, maybe I have another suggestion.