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Can Related records inherit data from their Parent record?

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Hello,

My related records would have the same data as the parent record such as same continent and country. Would there be a way that upon creating a child record for a pre-populated parent record can it inherit the continent from the parent record? Therefore auto filling these parameters for me when i link the records together?

 

Thank you i am open to any help!

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  • gulshankhurana Profile Picture
    1,397 Moderator on at

    Hi

     

    You could create those country and continent fields in child reocrd table as calculated fields and set them to fetch value from parent record.

     

    I hope this information helps. If it does then please accept it as a solution so that other users can benefit from it.

     

    Kind regards

     

    Gulshan

  • CU22081303-0 Profile Picture
    150 on at

    If the parent and child will always have the same values in those fields, I would recommend not even creating them on the child. You can display fields from related records on view and forms. Here is an example:

     

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    This shows a list (view) of Cases which have a lookup to a customer record. The case itself does not have the customer's name or job title, but we can find that information because we have the relation to that record. This avoids data becoming "out of sync" between the two records, and reduces data storage needs.

     

    If this doesn't solve your problem, there are some options to make it work. Probably a Power Automate flow that is triggered on record creation (child record being created) that will fetch the parent and use its info to populate the child. Then probably use Business Rules to lock the fields on the child record.

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