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3 years ago

Exact forms. Can I pull a field from an imbedded grid table?

Hi, I have an imbedded grid table from a relationship in my exact form. I need to use one of those fields further down in my from. Is there any way I can extract a field from the grid table? The ...

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MarkShnier__You

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I'm trying to understand your question. You have a parent and say 20 children. When you say that you want to pull a field form the children, which of the 20 record do you want to pull a value from?

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BarbaraAlvarez1

Qrew Member

3 years ago

Sequence is ...
select and save an agency
then add Type-A record(s) to the agency
then add a Type-B record to the agency
I then can print the form.
The exact form then shows the agency,
and the Type-A report grid
and the Type-B report grid.
Then I build a small table in the form that needs to populate a column with a field value from the Type-B record(report) - Client name. So I need the client name related to the Agency record save. Hope that is understandable.

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Barbara Alvarez
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MarkShnier__You
Qrew Legend
3 years ago
OK, so this is not an exact forms issue. The issue is how to float up some data form a child table into a clean field on the parent record. Then the Exact form is easy as you have a clean field to use.

I'm not sure I fully understand what your form and relationships look like, but I suggest making editing the relationship to create a combined text summary field of the Client Name.
Then make a new field with the formula
ToText([Client name])

and use that field on the Exact Form.

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Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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