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Winss's avatar
Winss
Qrew Trainee
4 years ago

Documentation on using JavaScript in quickbase

Where is the documentation on using javascript in QuickBase? I was searching in google for javascript in QuickBase documentation but I couldn't find any. Please give me the link to the documentation. ...
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AngelRodriguez's avatar
AngelRodriguez
Qrew Assistant Captain
You would more than likely refer to the Code Pages documentation and the RESTful API documentation, too. The RESTful API documentation is nice because it demonstrates how to use jQuery and the Fetch API with code pages. Other than that, I'm not sure where else you'd find other JavaScript documentation for QuickBase unless you search around a bit on the community forums. I'm sure other users have some input on this as well.

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Winss's avatar
Winss
Qrew Trainee
4 years ago
In RESTful API documentation page its mostly about writing query, but i need javascript mainly to bring more programmatic ability to some auto-generated fields in records. In many Q&A I have seen experts giving answers by using js. If there is a doc I can  program myself, but there seems no docs. related with this.

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  • AustinK's avatar
    AustinK
    Qrew Commander
    4 years ago
    It isn't very intuitive on their site but keep in mind that you can select the code you want to see on there. You have to do it for every single thing you view but you can see a code example in JavaScript or even JavaScript ES6. It can be tough to smash many code examples together from this website but it may help give a starting point if you did not notice this before.

    • Winss's avatar
      Winss
      Qrew Trainee
      4 years ago
      This is something I'm very much interested in. I have seen some examples and it seems using programming language like Python is only for querying the database. Is there any way by which I can deploy my python code in QuickBase (may be in code pages/formula fields) and use its result in another dedicated field.
      If so, please guide.

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      • AngelRodriguez's avatar
        AngelRodriguez
        Qrew Assistant Captain
        4 years ago
        Can you use automations, webhooks or even formulas to do that? It seems like you can use some of QuickBase's native features to do this. If you're using a result from one field into another, you still have to query the database in order to grab that data and present it in another field. Can you give more detail into what you're actually trying to accomplish? Perhaps a more concrete example.

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