Are editing and opening existing records supported in guided composites or are they for new record creation?

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I have been trying to use a guided application for editing existing records in our system and am wondering if that is supported after trying out some different configurations that haven’t worked.

  1. Can you edit an existing record in a guided composite or is it for new record creation?
  2. Can you default to a certain record based off the field selection on a previous app?

Ideally our use case would have the first page be an in-line table lookup and have the following apps in the guided composite default to the record of the table lookup selected on the first app. If that is not supported by the system, another option that could work for us is having an app link to the composite app from the record the user is wanting to edit, but the data mappings on the composite app link didn’t seem to be passing through successfully.

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Editing existing records is not currently supported within Guided Composites as they do not have a list view for us to select the record to edit.

I could definitely see a world where we would allow existing records to be mapped into a Guided Composites in edit mode, however, this does not exist today either.

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Ok thanks for the response Kyle. As a workaround for now, is queueing app links on traditional composite apps supported? I know the experience may not be as automated but that could be a stopgap for us to have that logic run on field value change or before save

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Yes, you can use the Queue App Link logic action to perform app links between steps on a Standard Composite app.

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