Opening a pre-existing entity without an ID

Question

If a field called new_something on a form of entity Stuff is changed, I'm running a check to see if there's an instance of an entity of type Thing with corresponding value on its new_something_else field. This works perfectly.

Now, the customer'd like to to smack up the found, corresponding instance on the screen as well. Is there a smooth way to do that using the value of new_something or do I have to fetch the ID of the pre-existing entity and use it with redirection of the browser?

It seems to me like an ugly and unsupported approach but perhaps that's how it's supposed to be done in 4.0 - other suggestions are welcome.

Answer 1

I think you will need to retrieve the ID of the other record and use that to open the other entity.

However URL addressable forms is a supported option.