Create a new related entity in a to-many relation field

Double checking whether or not I’ve encountered a bug here.

I am setting up an automation in my contractor invoices database where one contractor invoice can be linked to multiple expenses in the expense database. However in Fibery automations I am not seeing an action where I can create a single expense that is linked to the contractor invoice by clicking a button.
The only action I’m seeing is to update all the entities that are already linked to that contractor invoice. Why is that?
I could have sworn this feature already existed.
Looking for guidance here as to whether this is a bug that it is missing or this is actually a feature request somewhere.

There should be an action called “Add [database name]”.

Maybe it’s a lookup or an autolinked relation?

I can add files, but I cannot add a related entity.
Just update all linked entities.

I don’t follow what you mean here:

Are you asking if I’m sure it’s actually a relation field?

Yeah, because it’s weird that it doesnt show… Here’s mine:

Can you share a template of what you have? or a video showing how its set up?

It’s definitely a relation field but I just confirmed there is an auto-link enabled.

I can’t imagine why we shouldn’t be able to create a new record just because auto-linking is turned on. The auto-link parameters should just become non-editable, prefilled properties, for the relation

Agreed. Feel free to vote for the change here: Allow create of auto-linked relations in automations

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Thank you Ron. You’re the best!

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