How to create a relation to a record from another table in a post request

RE: How to create a relation to a record from another table in a post request

Francesca Shiekh — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:21:07 GMT

Glad you were able to get it to work. Sounds like your Account field in the installed base module is a Relate field.

RE: How to create a relation to a record from another table in a post request

Steffen Scheid — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:25:42 GMT

Thank you Liam Hastings - that's a very good tip!
Best regards,
Steffen

RE: How to create a relation to a record from another table in a post request

Steffen Scheid — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:21:47 GMT

Thank you Francesca Shiekh , this is very helpful. I was able to solve it even easier, in the module installed_base was a field "account_id" - if I pass a valid account_id, the relation is created!

All the best,
Steffen

RE: How to create a relation to a record from another table in a post request

Liam Hastings — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:44:02 GMT

The answer from Francesca Shiekh is what you want here. But in case it helps Steffen Scheid the UI actually consumes its own API so sometimes in instances like this the easiest way to work out how to do it over the API is to do it in the UI and watch the network requests it makes. Just thought I would put that out there in case you were not aware.

RE: How to create a relation to a record from another table in a post request

Francesca Shiekh — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:09:43 GMT

Hi Steffen Scheid

To create a record that is related to an existing record you can start from the existing record you want to relate to.

Use:

<module>/:record/link/:link_name POST

So, in your example, let's pretend your accountID is ffe8d826-81cb-11e7-8d9e-001a4a160206

and the relationship between your Accounts and Installed Base modules is called: inst_installedbase_accounts_1

To create an IstallBase relaed to that Account the API will be:

Accounts/ffe8d826-81cb-11e7-8d9e-001a4a160206/link/inst_installedbase_accounts_1

FrancescaS

PS. The easiest way to find the link_name is in the cached vardefs:

cache/modules/Accounts/Accountvardefs.php

search for your module name for the Installed Base.