API_AddRecord works, API_GenAddRecordForm doesn't.

Everything is working properly - there is just some confusion over how to use the API calls.

The vast majority of the API methods return a single XML document as a response. The method API_GenAddRecordForm is an exception as it returns a HTML document as a response and included in this response are links and references to other resources such as JavaScript files, CSS files, font files etc.

When  API_GenAddRecordForm is loaded from a hyperlink or entered into the address bar of a Browser, the Browser will make additional calls to the other resources and assembles everything into a visible page. However, when Postman loads API_GenAddRecordForm it only grabs the raw HTML response and does not request the other resources nor does Postman render the page (it isn't a browser and doesn't even have a rendering engine).

This explains everything your report.

The area where you are probably going astray is that in your JavaScfipt you are probably calling API_GenAddRecordForm using:

$.get("...?act=API_GenAddRecordForm...") 

when you should be using:

document.location.href = "...?act=API_GenAddRecordForm..."  

Aha - that explains a lot.  Thank you!

But actually, I'm using :

var url = "https://xxxx.quickbase.com";  
  url    += "/db/";
  url    += "abcdefghi";
  url    += "?a=API_AddRecord";

and then the url gets called from $.ajax

so now I'll try rewriting the javascript without the .ajax