pod-add() on act, how to set rel. field value

Hi
Im trying to add pod records programatically. The pod is called ‘timelogs’ and have a relational field pointing to another pod called ‘element’ It works fine except i can’t figure out how to also set values of the relational fields:

$pod = pods( 'timelog' ); // Timelog is ACT

$data = array(
	'name' => 'New timelog',
    'element.ID' => 3168 // relational field, one direction.
);

$x=1;
do
  {
  $newpost = $pod->add( $data );
  echo $newpost . '</br >';
  $x++;
  }
while ($x<=2)

Version is 2.3.9
Any help appreciated.
-Bonsak

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