Add many existing records at the same time (hasMany-belongsTo relationship)
This example shows how to associate multiple existing records at once to a record using a simple smart action.
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This example shows how to associate multiple existing records at once to a record using a simple smart action.
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This is the documentation of the forest-express-sequelize
and forest-express-mongoose
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forest-express-sequelize
v9 and forest-express-mongoose
v9 are replaced by v1.
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An admin backend running on forest-express-sequelize
Relationship One-To-Many between two collections (in this example an organization hasMany companies <-> a company belongsTo an organization)
Create a new smart action in the forest file of the collection with the hasMany relationship (organizations in this example).
This smart action will be usable on a single record (type: 'single'
). We will create two fields in the smart action form, one will be used for the search on the referenced collection and the second will be used to see the selection made by the operator.
When the user validates the action, this route is called. We will use the selection to retrieve all companies' ids and then updates all companies organizationId
field to create the associations.
In addition, once the smart action has been successfully run, it refreshes the relationship to properly display newly added associations.