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JimHarrison
Qrew Champion
6 years ago

When is this not Required? Save parent record automatically when a child record is created.

Curious to hear if there is a Use Case where this is not checked by default.  ------------------------------ Jim Harrison ------------------------------
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JimHarrison's avatar
JimHarrison
Qrew Champion
6 years ago
One issue we have noticed is the following:
1. add new parent
2. add new child from parent
parent prompts to save
3. click yes
taken to new child
4. complete child and save
does not return to parent
user clicks browser back button to return to parent
when user arrives at parent, save prompt is displayed, user clicks save

result:
second parent is created

expected:
user is returned to parent upon save of child

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Jim Harrison
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  • EvanMartinez's avatar
    EvanMartinez
    Moderator
    6 years ago
    Hi Jim,

    I have seen the same before and it crops up due to the parent record not having a Record ID at the time the save happens. One thing I have done in instances like that is to either make a button that appears on the child record after it is saved that says "Back to Parent" that is nice and prominent that uses the Related Parent field to take the user back to Parent Records or I have changed the standard redirect to instead drop you on the parent table homepage after using that button to create a child record from the Parent record to bring the user right back to the parent table at least even when a record didn't have a Record ID at the time the button was hit.

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    Evan Martinez
    Community Marketing Manager
    Quick Base
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