Creating child records

[MoGrace]

Re: Creating child records

It seems like searching for desktop posts these days is always going to find old threads. So bumping an old one is not always a bad idea.

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Creating child records

You guys realize this is a ten year old thread?

[DaveM]

Re: Creating child records

Bill, I tend to do it one of 3 ways. If using tabs or- one can just drag fields from child to parent and use. I prefer to create a form within the set, but on the child table and then place the form in the parent form including possibly an imbedded browse. Other is to create same but call it from main form, usually over the main form usually with a button push.

[madtowng]

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This sounds a lot like something I have working.
We have a customer that has many customers, and needs a place to store product.
This customer provides us an ASN, that includes their customer's ID, an item number or numbers, quantity, and a skid id.
We then save that information, along with a binbay id (where we actually put the skid).

Some of my terminology might be slightly different, but am I on the right track ?

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Re: Creating child records

Go for it. I'd Appreciate any suggestions.

Bill Belanger

[MoGrace]

Re: Creating child records

Yup, that worked. Thanks for the help guys.

Bill Belanger

Glad you got going in the right direction. Your model seems to be one of "warehousing" which would be more descriptive than "inventory". Are you going to leave this link open? - I'd like to look at it some more.

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Re: Creating child records

Yup, that worked. Thanks for the help guys.

Bill Belanger

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Re: Creating child records

I was asking how to create new records in a child table when I add a record in the parent table. Posting only modifies a field in a matching record. A copy records operation would be nice, but it wants to create a new table. I think append unique records might work using a unique transaction code for every new parent record.

Thanks
Bill Belanger

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: Creating child records

Bill, I'll be glad to take another look once I have a clue what you need. In meantime I'll sign off hoping that someone more intuitive than me can figure out what you're asking about. -- tom

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Thanks guys. Unfortunately "inventory" in this situation is not like a merchant who catalogs items for sale. This is a freezer plant. Customers send pallets or totes (huge tubs of veggies) of product to them to keep them frozen until needed for shipment to other customers. They could be totes of blueberries, pallets of frozen french fries, who knows. These products go into inventory, and then they're gone. The product is date coded, they may be McDonalds french fries but with the date code, they are a unique product. They will never be inventoried again. I don't need a bunch of empty records in an inventory table.

This is what I'd started in Filemaker (about 1/3rd done) before changing my mind and re-starting it in Alpha, just to give you an idea of what I'm doing.

http://64.223.230.119/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=acp&-loadframes

login as admin, no password.
Look at Incoming

Attached is where I am in Alpha.

Bill Belanger

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: Creating child records

Bill said:

But I also want to "post" new records to an inventory table. It looks like to me that I need to first create a new record, then populate the fields in that record with a script, probably an event on saving the parent record. I just wanted to be sure I had the right idea and that there wasn't a step that would copy the entire record to a new table.

This makes no sense to me, sorry. In the invoice the quantity ordered is usually a field in the line items table, not the invoice table. That's true in AlphaSports which you say you want to mimic. I'm baffled why new records in the inventory table would be needed?

Are you simply trying to adjust the quantity on hand ? If so you need to CHANGE a record in the inventory table, not ENTER a record, right? If you want to adjust the quantity on hand in the inventory table consider using a post FIELD RULE defined in the invoice_items table that subtracts the quantity ordered from the quantity in inventory? More details are needed if these ideas don't get you going.

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: Creating child records

I want to do the same thing. I would like to create an invoice and show the line items in a browse below. I could probably have the browse display records filtered on the invoice number.

This much is dead easy. Create a set. Invoice headers as primary and line items linked one to many as child. Base form on the set. Put fields from the primary table on form. Use embedded browse to display child table records. Surely you remember this, right? Am I missing the point of your post?

Perhaps the tutorial in the help file on "using tables in a set" will bring back some memories.

[MoGrace]

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Thanks Tom. I see that in Alpha Sports there are two tables, invoices and invoice items. I want to do the same thing. I would like to create an invoice and show the line items in a browse below. I could probably have the browse display records filtered on the invoice number. But I also want to "post" new records to an inventory table. It looks like to me that I need to first create a new record, then populate the fields in that record with a script, probably an event on saving the parent record. I just wanted to be sure I had the right idea and that there wasn't a step that would copy the entire record to a new table.

Bill Belanger

Hi Bill,
It almost sounds as though you are wanting to create matching transactions for your inventory table that will reflect the line items you are shipping in the invoice. When you say "new records" then you are talking about an append operation not a post (whether operation or field rule). If the records already exist in the inventory table and you merely want to update the quantities on hand as Keith said, then you want to post to those matching records which could be done in a field rule set in your invoice line items table.

We need more info! My inventory is done with matching transactions created for each shipment, because I have to split the total amount shipped into percentages for the different inventory items used to get my quantities.

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Creating child records

Hi Bill,

When you mention the Inventory table, is that so you can subtract and add values to product quantities in hand?

If that is the case look at the field rules of the child table in Alphasports.

We would like to help but please give us more to work with.

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Re: Creating child records

Thanks Tom. I see that in Alpha Sports there are two tables, invoices and invoice items. I want to do the same thing. I would like to create an invoice and show the line items in a browse below. I could probably have the browse display records filtered on the invoice number. But I also want to "post" new records to an inventory table. It looks like to me that I need to first create a new record, then populate the fields in that record with a script, probably an event on saving the parent record. I just wanted to be sure I had the right idea and that there wasn't a step that would copy the entire record to a new table.

Bill Belanger