[DONE] First child item fails to auto-attach when creating multiple children for new parent items

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Bug Summary:
When creating multiple child items for a new parent item via related field, the first child fails to attach automatically while subsequent children attach correctly.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create a new parent item
  2. From the parent item, create the first new child item using the related field (configured to accept multiple entries)
  3. Save - the first child item saves but does not attach to the parent
  4. Create a second new child item from the same parent
  5. Save - the second child item automatically attaches to the parent as expected

Impact: This creates significant usability issues because:

  • Users must manually reattach the first child item
  • Newly created items don’t display names immediately (eg. Untitled), making identification difficult
  • When multiple people create records simultaneously in the child database, it becomes hard to distinguish which unattached items belong to which parent

Workaround: Manually attach the first child item after creation.

Additional context: This bug only affects related fields configured to accept multiple entries. Single-entry related fields work correctly.

Please run Tape 2.0 records through this test with hopes of resolving the issue.

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Hi @1F2Ns,

thank you so much for your detailed report! You’re absolutely right, this issue is not ideal, and the old solution was never really perfect.

The good news: this will be fully resolved with the new record creation process we’re rolling out. Once the updated relation field is live as well, everything will work smoothly together. With the new creation logic, the record will already exist under the hood from the start. That not only fixes this linking issue but also allows calculation fields to run during creation, with only a final, nearly-instant publishing step at the end.

Thanks again for your valuable feedback and for helping us improve!

Best,
Leo

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I’m going to mark this closed seeing as you’re already on top of it.

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