Creating a parent record from a child record creation

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I’m a newbie.

In my travel app, I have 3 child tables for Transportation, Accommodation and Activities.

The parent table is Costs.

When the user creates a new child record (say an Accommodation record), II need a new linked Cost record to be created (every time).

Currently they must create the Accommodation record then separately (remember to) create a Cost record, go to the Costs link field, search for the Accommodation record, Select the Accommodation record and save the Cost record.

There must be a better easier user friendly way.

Help appreciated. Thanks.

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Hi there and welcome to our community!

The first way that you outlined is the current best option (you’re using a hidden field to link to the current record to the new object, yeah?)

Otherwise, we are working on the ability to add this functionality to action buttons but I don’t have a release date on this.

Also, I assume this kind of multiple CRUD will be easily available when our workflows come in june/july.

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Thanks for the insight!

FYI AirTable has a cool way of popping a form out from another form then updating as it returns to the original form.

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