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Is there an easy way (or a way at all) to add a button to the edit record form that would actually save the changes as a new record in the table? Seems like it should be possible but my brain isn't working with me today.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Kurtis

Currently there is no such feature. You could do this with a beforeSave() trigger but it would require a little bit of PHP coding.

-Steve

Thanks for the response Steve. Maybe it can be used as a suggestion for future versions then, instead of a how-to

Thats ok though, I can work around it, no big deal. I wont be the only one entering data into the database so I was hoping to make it easier for others.

-Kurtis

Is there a way to copy existing records? We're trying to think of some way to make it less cumbersome for the people doing data entry. There will be quite a few groups of records in the database that have very similar information in them.

Thanks!

Mike

Hi Mike,

Good feature suggestion but it is not yet available.Ê When I need to do things like this, I have generally just created a custom action for the application.Ê This is because with relational database applications even copying records may not be so straight forward.Ê Often people want to make a copy that doesn't retain some relationships but does retain other relationships.
Nonetheless... good feature idea.
-Steve

sorry to revive a 5 year old thread, I have a new thread about this, but I am wondering is this feature available now? basically merging together the edit function with the insert new function?

This feature is still not available. You could copy the record, and then edit it.