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RyanLocke1
Qrew Cadet
3 years ago
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Pipeline to add Parent record from child import

I have an App where we are importing standardized data from another source regularly and I have 3 parent tables where the key field is a text field that matches fields in the child table. I am trying...
  • MarkShnier__You's avatar
    3 years ago
    One solution is to import to a temporary scratch table.  Then have a relationship back to the parents who may or may not exist.  But then also have a formula query to detect duplicates and only flag the first duplicate.

    Here is one Blog on that.
    https://community.quickbase.com/blogs/ashley-banning/2021/07/26/finding-duplicates-in-qb-just-got-easier

    The "extension" to your use case would be to hive off the first result form the Formula Query and only import where the [Record ID#] matches the duplicate finder.



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