Create new record in a portal?

[mathur999]

I have two tables related, Calendar and appointments. I have records from Appointments visible in a portal in calendar. I am trying to get a script in calendar to create a new portal row and enter the fields with data from global fields in calendar. It seems to keep writing over the last portal row and not create a new row. How do you create a new portal row (record) and enter data in it? Thanks in advance..

[Reed]

Do you have "allow creation of related records" checked in the relationship options?

[mathur999]

Hi I do have the allow creation of related records checked in the relationship. When I click in the portal on a blank line at the bottom and enter a time in the Appointment:time field it pops up a dialogue that says: "This action cannot be performed because this field is not modifiable." Yet it is a simple time field indexed but no other restrictions and can be edited in that table O.K. The field in the Calendar table is a calculation global field. I can edited and pre-existing row in the portal but I cannot create a new row without getting the above message? Any thoughts??

[-Queue-]

Is the related key field in Appointments a calculation?

[mathur999]

Yes the related Key field in Appointments is a calculation text field. I can enter the portal manually without a script and change a row with pre-existing data but when I click on the last row for a new portal row entry and enter the data in the field it states "This action cannot be performed because this field is not modifiable."

Any thoughts?

[-Queue-]

Auto-creation of related records will not work if the related key field is a calculation.

If the related key must be a calculation, then

you could change your script to set the current key to a global (or pass it as a Script Parameter), go to a layout based on Appointments, create a new record and set its key field with the global (or SP). Then return to the Calendar layout, Commit the record, go to a related field in the portal and then to the last portal row.