Here is the solution:

https://docs.skuid.com/latest/en/skuid/action-framework/action-list/actions-model-data-changes.html#adopt-rows-into-model

https://github.com/skuid/skuid-labs/tree/master/experiments/snippets/smartAdopt

but I am not sure how and where to put the XML.

Hey @Bill ! curious question, do you have an existing action seq in your XML?

in addition, have you seen the installation section of the [github doc](https://github.com/skuid/skuid-labs/tree/master/experiments/snippets/smartAdopt#installation)?

Copy the contents of SmartAdopt.js into a new snippet titled "SmartAdopt", and copy the contents of SmartAdopt.xml into the actionsequences node in your page XML. The purpose of the action XML is simply to provide declarative input parameters for our snippet.