The table is dmn_demand_task, the record that I need to retrieve the sys_id is on a custom demand child table.  I do need to query with the sys_id. That's the issue I'm having. I don't know how to get the sys_id of the related records/parent demand.  I was just trying different things when I took the screen shot.  I tried querying a lot of different ways with sys_id. The problem is that I can't successfully save the parent records sys_id into a variable to put in the addQuery line and I can't seem to successfully get it using something like current.parent.sys_id.  That's why I was trying to make a field on task that contains the sys_id. Something else I've tried that didn't work: