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Print data from a linked record, such as the client’s name

Insert a field from a unit linked to the record, up to 2 levels deep: contract → project → client.

4 min
Before you start · 1 thing · for owners and managers
A relation between the 2 units

Steps

1
Type {{ in the editor.
2
Choose the field from the linked unit’s group.
The chip is written as customer.name.
3
For the second level, choose from the unit linked to the linked unit, such as project.client.name.

How it works

When printing, Corteksa follows the relation from the record, and takes the first linked record only.

It reads linked records with your own permissions: if you don’t have the permission to read the linked unit, or the linked record is outside what you can see, the field prints empty. See Permissions: Allowed, Team-wide access, If responsible, Denied.

A multi-select field from a linked record prints only as comma-separated text, and can’t print as a list.

A linked record’s date prints as it is, and date formats don’t apply to it unless it’s a date and time.

To show all the linked records as numbers, use a chart from the linked records.

If something goes wrong

What you see
Why
What to do
The linked field is empty
There’s no linked record, or you don’t have permission on the unit.
An unexpected client shows
The record is linked to more than one record, and the first one prints.
Make the relation a single record, or look up the value with a lookup field in the unit.

A real example

Shield Security Co.
The situation

The contract is linked to the site, and the site is linked to the client.

What they did
  1. In the contract template: {{site.name}} for the site’s name.
  2. And {{site.customer.name}} for the client’s name, through the site.
The result

The contract prints the site’s and the client’s names without copying them by hand.

A made-up company, to show the idea. The numbers are rounded.

Good to know

Up to 2 levels of relations.
The first linked record in each relation is used.
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