Referenced action based on value from different table

[Pratyay_Rakshit]

There’s one table which holds a bunch of addresses, say Address, against some town.

There’s another ‘persons’ table.

What I want to do is to assign a person against a bunch of addresses which share the same town name.

I have made another ‘link’ table, which has a column named town, which is a valid if from the address table - Address[Town]

There’s another column which shows all addresses against the same town.

filter(“Address”, [Town]=[_THISROW].[Town])

Then there’s a person column which is a ref from the person table.

What I want to achieve is to write the person name in the address table against the addresses which are chosen here.

I know that is achieveable by using a referenced action on the rows of the address table. The referenced rows would be the ones that match the addresses with the ones chosen here in the link table.

But I don’t know how to write the person name into that table. If I use a data change action, then I cannot figure out how to use the person name there, which is dynamic and dependent on the link table column.

[Steve]

Maybe it’s just too early in the morning, but I can’t make sense of what you want to do.

[MultiTech]

It’s okay @Steve, I got you; grab some coffee mate!

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@Pratyay_Rakshit,

Pratyay_Rakshit:

What I want to achieve is to write the person name in the address table against the addresses which are chosen here.

So you want to modify the address table records based on the values from your link table?

That goes against standard practices; your address table should stand as just that - addresses. You’ve already gone the correct route and create a link table to connect everything together.

If you make all the columns in your link table ref columns (to each respective table), you’ll end up with a related list of link records on each of those tables. So on your Addresses table, you’ll have a list of all the link records associated to that address - which would show the people you selected.

You could use a list dereference to pull a list of names from that.

Or maybe just the presence of an inline view listing all the associated names would be enough inside your app.