Skip to main content
Solved

Deleting Orphaned Children (records)

  • May 22, 2024 10:32 AM UTC
  • 0 replies
  • 285 views

Forum|alt.badge.img+11

Hellos,

I have a scenario where I have a table where orphaned children exists , they can be recognised visually from hyperlink (See Screenshot).

The question is how to filter for them so they can be deleted in QuickBase . I can do this easily outside of QuickBase but how to do this natively ? 

 

Best answer by MarkShnierYou

The way I do this is I go to the parent record and make a checkbox formula field with the formula of TRUE and I name the field [Parent exists?]

I then do a look up of that field down to the child records. If that look up field is false that means there is in fact, no parent.

View original
This topic has been closed for replies.

MarkShnierYou
Forum|alt.badge.img+24
  • Qrew Champion
  • Answer
  • May 22, 2024 11:33 AM UTC

The way I do this is I go to the parent record and make a checkbox formula field with the formula of TRUE and I name the field [Parent exists?]

I then do a look up of that field down to the child records. If that look up field is false that means there is in fact, no parent.


Forum|alt.badge.img+11

As always Mark, elegant solution. Thank you