Help with methodology on 1 to 1 form/relationships

Question

So this post if more looking for methodology verses a solution. I have a couple of Tables with Forms in my Application.
We have a root cause Table which is where we create case to track the root cause of an issue.
A root cause case can be generated from many methods: A phone call, an incident, a service request etc….
We have recently implemented another table and form for tracking incidents as they happen.
Ground rules:
1.     Every Incident requires an incident ticket (easy),
2.     Not every incident requires us to generate a root cause case
I am thinking of placing a button on the Incident form that would in fact generate the shell for the root cause case. So (ON CLICK) it would take you to a new Root Cause case form and populate the Inicdent ID field on the Root Cause table to be the ID of the incident that was used to generate the ticket.
In thinking through avoiding creating multiple Root Cause cases for an incident, I was thinking I needed a method to make the button visible or invisible based on whether there was a root cause that had the Incident ID in the Root cause table.
Here is where thoughts on method come in.
I was thinking of doing the following steps:
1.     Create button with process to Go to and Create a new Root Cause
a.     This would go to the new page and populate the Incident ID field with the incident ID.
2.     Once on the new Root Cause Page, I would complete the shell and then have a button to submit/save and one of the things it would do is check to see if the Incident ID field was populated.
a.     If populated, run an insert query to insert the Root Cause ID into the Root Cause ID field on the Incident Table.
i.     I would also think about sending the user back to the Incident page after they submit as well. But this is just aesthetics I think.
b.     If not populated, create the RCCA as normal
3.     When an incident is created, it would check to see if the Root Cause ID field was Null
a.     If Null – Create Root Cause button is visible
b.     If NOT Null – Create Root Cause button is hidden
My question is am I over thinking this and not using processes that are already available and I am just unaware of them or is this method an efficient means to accomplish what I am trying to do.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to read.
Wally

Answer 1

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