How to include a form field in new items

Hi all:

I have a sort of odd issue. I am looking at setting up a system for supply
ordering.

So I will have an supply request issue with some notes and fields:

   city     
   office number

and then a series of inventory request items:

  number, item, status [ordered, supplied]

Setting up the request items is easy:

  name="requestItem-1@number_needed" 
  name="requestItem-1@item" 
  name="requestItem-1@status"

etc. Increment -1 to -2 for the next item etc. The request items are
sort of like https://wiki.roundup-tracker.org/GrabBagIssues.

However I want to cross link these. So I can do a search in requests
and have the table filtered by office and city. So I can say: show me
all open requests for Boston or show me all requests for Boston office
#23.

I think a reverse multilink may be useful here. It will really be a
reverse link (only one element) but I am not sure if this is a good
application.

Thoughts?

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