New related records are popping up in my 7.0 database, while I didn't
write anything to those related records.

What rules make that those records are created?

In article <11pgcdqg56v6n23 (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com>, Gert Kok
<gertkok (AT) keraweb (DOT) nl> wrote:

Related records are simply records in another table / file that have
the appropriate data in the link field. Related records can be created
via a portal in the main file / table or in the related table / file
itself - these records could be created manually, by a script, or by
importing data.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Helpful Harry wrote:
And with or without having any portals anywhere. The key is that you
have your relationship definition set with the option to 'allow record
creation' turned on.

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The problem is not how to create those records; the problem is to
prevent records I didn't ask for getting into existence.

I'm not aware of places where I write data into those related records,
yet after updating a parent record I do see new child records, empty.

Gert

Howard Schlossberg wrote:

In article <11pjq0sf7od466a (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com>, Gert Kok
<gertkok (AT) keraweb (DOT) nl> wrote:

Records can't be created by magic, so somewhere you ARE creating those
records, either manually or via a script - the problem will be finding
where / when that's happening. It's not really anything we can help
with (unless you want to upload the files somewhere for someone with
the same version of FileMaker and some spare time to look into).

Somewhere / somehow either a new record is being created with the same
link data as the parent record, or an existing record is having it's
link data changed to link with a different parent record.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)