HELP!!! I have a company (parent) who has a child (doc a) who has inherited fields from another doc (doc b). I need to get the docID of doc b into doc a. HOW DO i DO THIS??? I tried to add another field with value of doc b’s UNID. Works only if I CREATE a new one…not if I refresh. I really need to get this to work. I have around 700 (doc a) that need to retrieve doc b’s UNID.
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Subject: Getting DocID from an inherited doc
If they are responses, they already have the value stored in a system field named $Ref. Note that the value is stored as a document reference object, so to get the text UNID, you need to use @Text($Ref).
Subject: RE: Getting DocID from an inherited doc
There is no good way. If the values in NEITHER document have changed, you could do a search to find the document that matches – but that assumes that the combination of values is unique (or at least that a single identifying value is unique). If the values in either document have changed, there will be no way to determine the original.
Subject: RE: Getting DocID from an inherited doc
Yep, you can only make your life easier for future documents and also inherit doc b’s unique ID into some field of your choice in doc a.
Subject: RE: Getting DocID from an inherited doc
I know about $Ref…but let me see if I can explain further the dilemma…
company
doc a
doc b
doc a’s parent ($REF) is company; doc b’s parent ($REF) is company; doc a has inherited fields from doc b. how do I get the doc b’s UNID? (doc a is not a response to doc b). If I use $REf I will get the parent doc…I want the UNID of the doc whose fields were inherited. Does that make sense?