Trying to retrieve info from Relationship field in App

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Joel Ordesky

• June 12, 2015 06:26

So I have an APP called Submission it has a relationship field that looks to an app called Director. The Director App is a list of names of various Directors. A third app is called "Coverage Assignment" and it needs to mirror many of the fields (but not all) from a related record in Submission.

So the Key Field of Coverage Assignment is a relationship field for the Title field in submission. So I can access most of the fields from Submission by using Calculation fields like @all of {field name}. However I can not seem to access the info in the Submission:Directors field which shows the key field from the Director which is Director:Name field.

So the question is can it be done.

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  Rainer Grabowski

  • June 12, 2015 07:01

  Hi Joel,

  no, you can't access directly the info from a relationship field into a calculation field in a third app. You have to use a workaround: Create a calculation field in Submission which gets the Director's Name @all of name . This new field you can access from Coverage Assignment.

  Rainer

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  Joel Ordesky

  • June 12, 2015 17:53

  Rainer, Yeah the problem with that is then the info shows twice in the Submission app which looks kind of kludgey.

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  Joel Ordesky

  • June 12, 2015 23:43

  Looks like I can get to the data using Globiflow.

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  Jeremy JF Thompson

  • June 01, 2017 19:49

  Joel, can you let me know how you created the workflow in globiflow that let you achieve this? I would greatly appreciate it. 

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  Rainer Grabowski

  • June 03, 2017 14:46

  Hi Jeremy,

  In Globiflow you can use the action Get referenced - continue: Follow references to another app ...
  But it's not necessary, see my 2 years old answer above. That calculation field you can "Always hide".

  Rainer

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