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Creating portals

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Creating portals

So far in this chapter, we've been talking about relationships and we've been talking specifically about relationships between a parent table and a child table. We've looked at how you can place related fields on a layout, so that one table can borrow values from another. This, of course, eliminates the need for us to define those fields in both tables, which eliminates redundant data and a ton of potential for error. However, we've only been looking at using related fields from within the context of a child table. For example, we were looking at dropping customer fields on an invoice layout, customer being the parent and invoice being the child. Let's see what happens when we use related fields from the context of the parent table, or in this case, what if I put fields from the invoice table, which is the child, onto the layout of the customer detail, which is the parent. Let's navigate over to Customer Detail, which we have here, and we'll go into Layout mode. I'd like to go over to…

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