Creating a fixed number of related records

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On an entry screen, I have 5 global fields, one of which is a quantity, 2 of which are date fields and the remaining two are text. After this is entered, the method will run a check and if the check is positive will create a new record in the master file waiting for the user to enter some additional information. Once that is done, pressing the Submit button will create a related record for the remainder of the information to be entered.

What I want to achieve is only allow the same number of related records to be created as are in the quantity field. For example, if the number is 2, then only 2 related records can be allowed to be created.

Ideally what I would like to see happen is the related records, whether that be 1,2, 3, etc be created and then displayed using Show Form as Dialog. Is that possible. TIA.

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Sure, while creating the records throw the id’s in an array.

Convert that array into a foundset and load that foundset into the form before opening it as a dialog.

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Thanks, Marcel.

Would you have an example of the code for this? TIA.

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No, I would have to build that and btw your learning curve is much better if you try to do this yourself :)

Look at

//Converts the argument to a JSDataSet with one column that can be used in controller.loadRecords(pkdataset)
databaseManager.convertToDataSet(Object array/ids_string)
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Thanks.