# Create and update Entities from repeats

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/create-and-update-entities-from-repeats/55163>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Tags:** entities, odk-central, odk-xlsform, odk-collect\
**Created:** [June 3, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/create-and-update-entities-from-repeats/55163 "2025-06-03T21:34:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![LN](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/ln/32/1605_2.png) [@LN](https://forum.getodk.org/u/LN)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/create-and-update-entities-from-repeats/55163/34 "2026-03-04T00:49:31Z")

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Can't wait to see everyone's forms!

@chun_hing_yap yes, any group or repeat can define an Entity action so you can do some pretty wild things. There may still be some unhandled edge cases so please let us know if you run into anything unexpected. For example I just identified [https://github.com/XLSForm/pyxform/issues/822](https://github.com/XLSForm/pyxform/issues/822)

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