New object based on existing object

suhage

I'm trying to make a new object (really actually a new row in my query results) using an existing object (read: row) as a template, and this is proving notoriously difficult. Does anyone have any tips for how to achieve this? Is it even possible?
Thanks in advance!

joben

You could use the duplicate function:
https://www.awareim.com/dokuwiki/doku.php/a_f/a/duplicate

If you don't want to save the row automatically, you could instead ignore the DUPLICATE function and make a process that can be executed on each row (operations with records) like:

ENTER NEW BO WITH
BO.Name=Bo.Name, Bo.Location=Bo.Location, BO.Description=Bo.Description USING Main

That will use the current row data as input and will populate each field for you inside the form, and you can edit it as you like before saving it.

suhage

joben wrote
You could use the duplicate function:
https://www.awareim.com/dokuwiki/doku.php/a_f/a/duplicate

If you don't want to save the row automatically, you could instead ignore the DUPLICATE function and make a process that can be executed on each row (operations with records) like:

ENTER NEW BO WITH
BO.Name=Bo.Name, Bo.Location=Bo.Location, BO.Description=Bo.Description USING Main

That will use the current row data as input and will populate each field for you inside the form, and you can edit it as you like before saving it.

This sounds like just what i need! i will try it out, thank you!

suhage

Update: I made a process like suggested above and it works like a charm!

joben

Thanks for reporting back. I'm glad it worked!