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Deleting Orphaned Children (records)

  • May 22, 2024
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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.

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  • May 22, 2024

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.


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As always Mark, elegant solution. Thank you