Adding references to new records

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So let’s say we ask the user a couple questions and Destination if the user answers Tel Aviv then the record is created and the field Destination (reference) it is referenced to Tel Aviv.
I’m thinking maybe I can make the value be the record ID…

Then we direct the user to a dynamic page that includes their personal info and the information we have for thedestination.

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Hi Carlos,

Could you please supply some more infroamtion on what exactly are you trying to achieve?

I’m getting you right, you are trying to build a forum which is connected to a collection of users in which the destination filed is a reference field from a destination collection

https://www.wix.com/code/home/tutorials-custom-form

following the above you’d like to define a dynamic page on top of the users collection

Displaying Database Content on a Dynamic Item Page | Help Center | Wix.com (specifically #4)

And have the user redirected to his personal info page upon save of the form

Hope those links will help you achieve those capabilities

Thanks
Adi

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I’m using this code and it is working out, however I am unable to retrive the values from my inputs. I can’t use $w selectors before the page is ready and I can only export an event function at top level. I’m confussed.

I need to trigger this with an OnClick event and the information conencted to the inputs.

import wixData from 'wix-data';

// ...

let countryId = "id-of-usa-item";

let toInsert = {
  "title":        "Mr.",
  "first_name":   "John",
  "last_name":    "Doe",
  "country":      countryId
};

wixData.insert("myCollection", toInsert)
  .then( (results) => {
    let item = results; //see item below
  } )
  .catch( (err) => {
    let errorMsg = err;
  } );

/*  item is:
 *
 *  {
 *    "_id":          "rifk4nrk-dj4o-djhe-oidk-fnoqw4oiglk4i",
 *    "_owner":       "ffdkj9c2-df8g-f9ke-lk98-4kjhfr89keedb",
 *    "_createdDate": "2017-05-24T12:33:18.938Z",
 *    "_updatedDate": "2017-05-24T12:33:18.938Z",
 *    "title":        "Mr.",
 *    "first_name":   "John",
 *    "last_name":    "Doe",
 *    "country":      "id-of-usa-item"
 *  }
 */
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Hi,

Have you tried looking into adding an onChange event on a text input field which will then call your exported function to execute your business logic
http://www.wix.com/code/reference/$w.TextInput.html#onChange

Adi