Populate field from related record on create

[SoBeGuy]

I created a custom entity called School, that has a one-to-one relationship with the Account entity. When I create a School record from the Account screen, I want it to copy the Account name to the School name field. In the Before-Save script for School, I entered the following:

name = account.name;

However, it doesn't work, I guess because the related attribute value isn't available until after the record is saved. I also tried pre-populating the name field by adding the following to relationshipPanels->School in clientDefs/Account.json:

"createAttributeMap": {
    "name": "accountName"
}​

but the name field is still empty. How can I make this work?

[eymen-elkum]

See this example and follow for your links:

https://github.com/espocrm/espocrm/blob/d033b26e57458de8cd3d5da337fa213753c34e46/application/Espo/Modules/Crm/Resources/metadata/clientDefs/Case.json#L73

UPDATE: this is working for both link one & link multiple

[SoBeGuy]

Thanks, but how would I do it for a one-to-one relationship?

[eymen-elkum]

I tested and it is working even for link one

[eymen-elkum]

Go to custom/Espo/Custom/Resources/metadata/clientDefs/Account.json

Add following:

{
    .......
   "relationshipPanels": {
      "school": {
         "createAttributeMap": {
         "name": "name"
         }
     }
   },
   .....
}
​​

[SoBeGuy]

This works perfectly, thank you! However, the code must be added to clientDefs/Account.json, not entityDefs.

[eymen-elkum]

Oops forgot to replace copied path