Cross linking forms

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  • November 8, 2013 at 11:39 AM #7464

    Guus
    Participant

    Just checking..

    Two forms: one with cars, one with sellers
    Want to link one or more cars to a seller. So entry through car-form shows me the seller.
    Seller can have several cars so I want to link back. So entry through seller-form shows me his cars.

    Made 2 forms each with a linked field (many to many) to the other form. Although it takes manual linking both ways it works great. Also I can unlink a care from a seller and link it to another seller. That works good as well.

    Just curious if this solutions could somehow cause problems that I haven’t foreseen?

    November 8, 2013 at 11:44 AM #7466

    Brendan
    Keymaster

    Hi Guus,

    Probably with exporting your records if you include linked forms. Tap Forms might get stuck bouncing back and forth between your links.

    I plan on addressing this issue with a new field type (Link FROM Form) or possibly a setting on the Link to Form field which will cause the inverse relationship to be auto-populated. The data for that is in the database, I just need to pull it out and display it.

    Thanks!

    Brendan

    November 8, 2013 at 11:46 AM #7468

    Guus
    Participant

    Yep, just did an export and Tap Forms stops. For now I’ll keep only one link. The new field sounds good!

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