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Primary contact not showing up in contacts

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I'm not understanding how associations work in portals for this. The advanced form is associating the portal user in the primary contact lookup field, but user is not showing up as a contact record for the account (subgrid of related contacts). I have an advanced form with 4 main steps and maybe the order is the problem or  I have the associations wrong, but I feel like I've tried every associate option available at this point. Form steps:

 

Step 1 - Create account (insert)

Step 2 & 3 - edit related account info (edit)

Step 4 - Create contact (related contacts subgrid) plus primary contact lookup field (edit)

 

Step 4 is where I want to associate the current user as both the primary contact and a regular contact, but only the primary contact is working. When the record is saved, the contacts subgrid is empty. The reason there is a list is so that other contacts can be added in addition to the current user. 

 

Should I have the contact creation at the beginning and then associate it to the account after? If not that, then which option will associate the contact? I've tried:

 

- adding attribute to step 1 that I think associates that step to the contactid

-adding table association, but contact table is not an option - will only let me lookup account-->primarycontact

-adding associate user on step 1 and step 4

 

Thank you in advance for any help and explanation of when to use which options (associate table, portal user in the form, etc.). 

  • JEM123 Profile Picture
    48 on at
    Re: Primary contact not showing up in contacts

    UPDATE:

    Here are some screenshots. I tried again to change things around, but I haven't been able to add the contact as a contact record for the account. The account is created with the user as the primary contact but the subgrid for associated contacts is blank.

     

    This is my Step 1 (insert account) Form Definition:

    JEM123_0-1624465693134.png

    plus Associated Table Reference:

    JEM123_3-1624465862787.png

    It's not a lookup, so I left that part blank.

     

     

     

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