Need Ideas / Help

[Ampurcell]

Alright my mind is mush right now...

So I want to make a vendor portal for my rental company.
I already have all my items in knack. I have been using it to manage inventory for years.

But! Here is the biggest Issue. As it traditionally stands you have to "know" the product to submit it in a form.
But I have hundreds of products and it would be easier to search the products than use an action to add to order.

• In a perfect world I would want clients to make an order

• than on the order page have a menu button that opens an inventory search

• The inventory search would come up (preferably in a pop-up modal) where they can use the action to _add to the quote on the previous page_

• then it would refresh to the parent page and show the product on their order as a line item attached to the order.

But the search doesn't work that way. The search won't connect to the order page. I can use a menu link to navigate to an existing page (search) but that page has zero to do with the quote. So when I add the item by creating a record it connects it to nothing.
I tried some JS with chatGPT to try an populate the order ID but that was a fail.

I did find a very clunky way to connect which would navigate to a child page that shows items with "blank" fields for quotations and then using inline editing update the field. But that is really cumbersome, not intuitive (this is for outside people) and super annoying for every item.

Any IDEAS! - Are their keywords that would help me solve this or someone have another solution that would streamline for customers.