How to create an auto-linked entity in Rule?

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With “normal” relations (i.e. not auto-linked), I can use the “Add new entity” Action to create and link a new entity in a Rule.

But when I change the relation to Automatically Link, that Action is no longer available.

Is there no way (besides script) to create a new related (auto-linked) entity?

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For reference - this is how I solve the problem of creating auto-linked entities “on demand”.

In this example, the main DB is Contacts, and every Contacts entity should be auto-linked to a Meta Contacts entity sharing the same Name (there can be multiple Contacts entities with the same Name, and these all get linked to one Meta Contact entity).

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The question is, how to automatically create new Meta Contacts entities when needed, so they can be auto-linked to matching Contacts entities? That is done by this Contacts rule:

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//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// DB:      Contacts
// RULE:    Create Meta Contact
// WHEN:    Contacts Created, or Contacts Updated (Update, Name)
// ASSUMPTIONS:
//      Contacts has many-to-one relation 'Meta Contacts', which is auto-linked on Name = Name
//
// Create the associated Meta Contact (which will be auto-linked on the Name field)

const fibery = context.getService('fibery')

const THIS_TYPE   = args.currentEntities[0].Type
const SPACE       = THIS_TYPE.replace(/\/.*/, '')
const OTHER_TYPE  = SPACE + '/Meta Contacts'     // Other DB
const OTHER_FIELD = 'Name'                       // Auto-Linking field in other DB
const LINK_FIELD  = 'Name'                       // Auto-Linking field in this DB
for (const entity of args.currentEntities) {
    await fibery.createEntity(OTHER_TYPE, { [OTHER_FIELD]: entity[LINK_FIELD] })
}
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