Auto-creating related records

[danjacoby]

I have a script that performs a find, then does some other things. I want it to finish by creating one related record for each found record, setting a particular related field to info put into a global field in the parent file.

I can do this the hard way by shuttling between the parent and child files, with multiple scripts. Is there an elegant way to accomplish this (such as a "new related record" command, or some such)?

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by danjacoby:

I have a script that performs a find, then does some other things. I want it to finish by creating one related record for each found record, setting a particular related field to info put into a global field in the parent file.

I can do this the hard way by shuttling between the parent and child files, with multiple scripts. Is there an elegant way to accomplish this (such as a "new related record" command, or some such)?

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Nope!

Use a "New record" script in the parent file, which calls a "New record" script in the child file.

You could also use a portal on the screen, goto the last portal row and add some data, but I find this to be a pretty ugly way to do it and not really any easier than the two script method.

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