Mapping data isn't working

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Posted on by adam90

Hello

I've created two custom entities Campus and Student. Student has a Lookup field to Campus.

I'd like to be able to create new Student records upon a button click from a Campus record (I created an 'Add Student' button to Campus entity using ribbon workbench).

Both of the entities have an Address field and I'd like the Address field in Campus to be mapped to the address field of Student.

In the 1:N relationship between the two entities I used mapping to map both of the fields ,but when I click on Add Student the field Address in the opened Student record remains empty.

What could be the problem here? Is it not how mapping works?

I'd appreciate help

Thank you.

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David Jennaway 14,065 on at

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I think the mapping only works in the UI if you pass additional parameters on the querystring extraqs parameter. These are _CreateFromId and _CreateFromType. If you go to the Navigation item for Students on the Campus form, then click Add New Student, you can see what the querystring should look like. However, I don't think these are documented, so they are officially unsupported.

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Charles Abi Khirs 3,569 on at

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Hello,

Mapping the fields in the 1:N relationship will not work unless you are creating the child record from the sub-grid of the parent record.

In your scenario, you have to manually fill the needed fields from the "Add Student" button using a JavaScript function by fetching the fields values of the parent and fill them in the student record.

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Aric Levin - MVP 30,190 Moderator on at

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On the change event of the lookup you should call WebApi function to retrieve the address field values from the Campus entity and populate them in the Student entity. Mapping only works when you add the student by clicking on the Add New Student from within the Campus record.

Hope this helps.

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adam90 30 on at

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So what you're saying is I need to create a sub grid in Campus that lists all related Student records and then mapping will work? Does mapping only work on sub grids?

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Charles Abi Khirs 3,569 on at

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Yes. This is where the mapping of the fields between the parent record and child records will work; otherwise, you will have to do it by adding some functionality to do it (workflow, plugins, JavaScript)

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adam90 30 on at

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I see. Thank you for helping me understand that.

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fshaikh 218 on at

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I have done the same it doesn't work. The field data is not copied to the child entity form.

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