Reference Field |
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The Reference field consists of two elements: searchable text field and the “Binoculars” button If you type the constraint in the text field of a Reference field and press TAB or click out to any other field – system will try to automatically look up the foreign record and once it’s found – it will fill the record into the text portion of the Reference field. At the same time, the referenced record may backfill into its corresponding Form (which may not be visible to the User but is available when User switches to another Tab; because of this feature sometimes it is required to Clear All Tabs in order to perform a new search). Once the reference record is filled, the binocular icon will change to In order to “unlink” the Foreign record from the Parent record – press CHANGE button while having the Form populated with the parent record and highlight the text in the field and press delete, once finished press SAVE to break the link between the records. |