Adding Contacts in Database

[amidyne]

I'm trying to create a database where there are Contacts and the Tasks associated with each of them. Right now on my Tasks Layout there's a portal which will hopefully be able to display the contact name.

What I want to do is to go to the contacts layout, click on a button next to the particular contacts name and have it associated with the Task.

However what I have managed so far is for a new iteration of the contact to be created as well.

I've tried storing the contact name inside a new field and then transferring that to my portal but that hasn't worked either.

I hope I've explained my situation clearly, any suggestions?

[bcooney]

If you want to relate Contacts to Tasks, then you need to store the ContactID in Tasks as a foreign key, "__kF_ContactID" is the style I use.

On Contacts, the button, "New Task" would:

Set Variable $ContactID to __kP_ContactID (its primary key)

Go to Layout Tasks

New Record

Set Field _kF_ContactID, $ContactID

Read up a bit on primary and foreign keys. You should not relate files using text fields such as names.

Edited July 24, 2008 by Guest

[amidyne]

Thanks!

For some reason I was trying to associate the contact with the task instead of the other way around. Sad thing is I had figured out that problem in another part of my database