Creating a URL based on a record ID
I have an automation that creates a new record on Table B when the existing record on Table A is modified. Due to the specific report I need, I could not create a traditional relationship between thes...
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MarkShnier__You
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Qrew LegendQuick Base has two different systems for identifying records. when it says &rid=123 then it is referring to a regular base 10 normal numbering system.
when it says &r=ku then it is using a Base 32 encoding system. There is likely some historical legacy reasons for this as Quick Base was invented in the late 1990s and perhaps memory was expensive back then, so storing in Base 32 may have been more efficient back then.
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when it says &r=ku then it is using a Base 32 encoding system. There is likely some historical legacy reasons for this as Quick Base was invented in the late 1990s and perhaps memory was expensive back then, so storing in Base 32 may have been more efficient back then.
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
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That is excellent information for Quick Base admins/programmers to know! Thank you for that explanation, Mark!
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Christopher Job
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Christopher Job
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- MarkShnier__YouI thought I posed this, but it seems it did not take,
if you make a formula numeric field
QB32Decode("ku")
the result is, indeed, 338.
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
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http://QuickBaseCoach.com
[email protected]
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