I’m doing a master child relationship for data entry. Basically one person can have many licenses. The only way i could find to actually set the reference in the child record when creating that record, was to save it to the collection via its dataset and then use the insertReference function http…

David, if you want to do 1-n (instead of n-m), wixData.insert should be enough. When you write the n-part, just make sure you fill the reference field with the _id of the main record.

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recruitingdepartment September 10, 2018, 7:06pm 3

facepalm… yeah i think that might do the trick… I guess I “nuked” it… overthinking the problem I’ll let you know how it works out here when I have a few minutes to implement and test.

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