Child rows are created without parent ref when added from parent table

[Rafael_ANEIC-PY]

Hello again friends, i have several child tables that reproduce this behavior:

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It happens when i add an item to a child table directly from the detail view of a parent table, it looks like it saves the rows without the parent ref:

Contratista_Id	Obra_ref	Nombre	Rubro	Nombre+Rubro	RUC	Telefono
9fc7f6cc		someone		someone ()

Which is quite bamboozling to me, since i can see it loads the reference on the form the moment i click the action that adds a new item, any ideas for fixing this?

[Rafael_ANEIC-PY]

I have done quite a lot of testing, and after i click on the new child row i just added from a parent table, i can see the new entry has a parent ref saved, but as soon as it syncs it disappears from the table, and lands in the spreadsheet without a parent ref.

[MultiTech]

Two questions:

1. Have you adjusted the Add action at all? (for the child table)
2. Is the Ref to a regular table, or a slice?

[Rafael_ANEIC-PY]

Hey Matt! thanks for replying, as for the answers to your questions:

1. I have only changed the “display name” for the action
2. The ref is to a regular table

[MultiTech]

Okay, that’s helpful.

Is there anything funny with the ref column on the child table? Something weird with the Edit If maybe?

[Steve]

Or is a workflow involved?

[Rafael_ANEIC-PY · Accepted solution]

Well, i just realized i had the “Editable” box unchecked for the column containing the reference in the child table…

It works now…

I am clevern’t, thanks for the help guys @Steve @MultiTech_Visions

[Steve]

That’s bitten me before, too.

[MultiTech]

It’s usually something strange like this - one off, never do it, strange why you did it this time but I did it and it’s messing things up type of thing.