CreateRecord Data Block
You can use the CreateRecord data block to create a new record in the specified table.
Note
The CreateRecord data block is available only in Data Macros.
Setting
The CreateRecord data block has the following arguments.
Argument |
Required |
Description |
|---|---|---|
Create a Record In |
Yes |
The name of the table to create the new record in. |
Alias |
No |
An string that identifies the record. You can use the record's alias to identify |
Remarks
The record created by CreateRecord automatically becomes the current record.
After CreateRecord statement, you can insert a block of commands that will execute before the new record is comitted. The following actions are available in a CreateRecord data block.
After the CreateRecord action creates a record, use the SetField action to specify a value of a field in the new record.
You can use an If...Then...Else statment to perform operations based on a condition.
To cancel the creation of a record, use the CancelRecordChange action. This prevents the changes from being committed and exits the CreateRecord data block.
Once the new record is committed, you can use the LastCreateRecordIdentity local variable to work with the record. For example, use the following syntax to to refer to the AssignedTo field of the most recently created record.
[LastCreateRecordIdentity].[AssignedTo]
The CreateRecord data block can only be used in the After Insert, After Update, and After Update data macro events.