# Create associated collection from Smart association

**URL:** <https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-associated-collection-from-smart-association/2972>\
**Category:** Help me!\
**Created:** [July 23, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-associated-collection-from-smart-association/2972 "2021-07-23T09:28:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![cooki](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/cooki/32/2657_2.png) [@cooki](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/cooki)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-associated-collection-from-smart-association/2972/1 "2021-07-23T09:28:23Z")

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Hey, not sure if this should be a feature suggestion.

I just created a smart association, and was wondering why I can’t add a record form this view

 ![Screen Shot 2021-07-23 at 11.25.39 AM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/5/5d063ab53724f915801d0b73a19ecea69629099b.png)

Is there another way to create a record with it’s associations on the same interface where there relationship is not a One-To-Many ?

Thanks,  
Camille

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**Author:** ![anon39940173](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@anon39940173](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon39940173)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 9:36am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-associated-collection-from-smart-association/2972/2 "2021-07-23T09:36:44Z")

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As they rely on custom code, smart relationships support none of

- creation of records
- bulk delete, csv export…
- smart actions

In your use-case, what prevented `Translations` to appear as “normal” relationship?

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**Author:** ![cooki](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/cooki/32/2657_2.png) [@cooki](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/cooki)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 9:50am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-associated-collection-from-smart-association/2972/3 "2021-07-23T09:50:28Z")

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Hey @anon39940173 , thanks for getting back to me.

It doesn’t appear as a “normal” relationship because this is how my tables relate.

 ![Screen Shot 2021-07-23 at 11.49.35 AM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/a/a7106927381ef9a135cba99ce423529992ca297f.png)

Maybe I should reconsider how I modeled this …

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**Author:** ![anon39940173](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@anon39940173](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon39940173)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 10:07am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/create-associated-collection-from-smart-association/2972/4 "2021-07-23T10:07:39Z")

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IIUC questions have many labels, labels have many translations?  
Watching the screenshot, I am under the impression that the arrows are backwards in the UML

I’m not sure that I have an easy workaround for this use case.  
I can only add a feature request to enable actions on smart relationships

We’ll be releasing a (paying) feature very soon which will allow to explore relations of relations from the details page, but that won’t allow creating/editing records yet.