populating a relate field in a before_save logic hook

[stevencmon]

I’ve added a ‘relate’ field in the Project module in which I want to store the id of a specific account record.

I’ve got this function that I’m calling before_save:

function Project_LinkAccount($bean, $event, $arguments) {
$GLOBALS[‘log’]->setLevel(‘debug’);
$bean->load_relationship(‘accounts’);
$account_id = implode($bean->accounts->get());
$GLOBALS[‘log’]->debug(“account_id value is: $account_id”);
if ( ! empty( $account_id ) ) {
$bean->account_c = $account_id;
$GLOBALS[‘log’]->debug("account_c set to: " . $bean->account_c);
}
$GLOBALS[‘log’]->setLevel(‘fatal’);
}

when it executes I get the following logged:

Fri Mar 31 13:35:35 2017 [508][6403d81d-0a9d-e6d7-cdc6-56d70932a82a][DEBUG] SugarBean[Project].load_relationships, Loading relationship (accounts).
Fri Mar 31 13:35:35 2017 [508][6403d81d-0a9d-e6d7-cdc6-56d70932a82a][DEBUG] account_id value is: a4183b33-5b43-0439-e6e9-58c032ea9b98
Fri Mar 31 13:35:35 2017 [508][6403d81d-0a9d-e6d7-cdc6-56d70932a82a][DEBUG] account_c set to: a4183b33-5b43-0439-e6e9-58c032ea9b98

my problem is that the id of the account record is not saved. I’m assuming that there is some magic that I’m missing in order to populate the ‘relate’ field.