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Auto Save When Redirected Table Setting Not Working

  • September 28, 2022
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Hi,

The "Auto save when redirected away from the page" setting does not seem to work when I'm entering data into a Grid Editable report on a form on an existing record. It does work when the record is being added, but as soon as the record is created and has a record ID#, it no longer works and asks me if I'm ok leaving the page without saving:

Any ideas why this is and how I can get around it? At first I thought it was my JS button, but I tried to create a solution where it would use a standard URL button after record has been saved, but that doesn't work either.

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Curtis Middleton
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    MarkShnierYou
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    Yep, been there, know all about it. I think I know about the solution from Ms. Junkie. @Sharon Faust

    The issue is that the parent record hast to get dirtied in order that Quickbase do the auto save. If you just edit the grid edit children the system doesn't have that same recognition.​

    I was just working through the same issue with a client and my solution was to make a form rule which will always make a trivial edit to the form in a dummy field. For example you could have a date time field and then have a form  rule that always makes that field change to the current date time. That is enough to dirty the parent record and it will auto save when you navigate away.

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    Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
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    Mark Shnier. Your Quickbase Coach
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