Displaying code page content in text formula

Question

I have a code page which returns some text. I want this text to be displayed in a rich text formula field. Now that java script in not working within rich text formula fields, how do I get it to display the data after executing the code page without having to press a button.

Thanks

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Chaim Weiss
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blakeharrison · Answer

If you need the code page to determine your text, I don't believe there is any way for your use case to work without a button click. On the other hand, if it's possible to do a similar calculation within the formula field itself, you could by-pass the code page altogether.

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Blake Harrison
bharrison@datablender.io
DataBlender - Quickbase Solution Provider
Atlanta GA
404.800.1702 / http://datablender.io/
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qbsystem · Answer

Thanks for your reply. I am looking to get data via url request from an outside website. I dont think this can be done within the formula. If yes please let me know.

Thanks

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Chaim Weiss
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ahuvabrown · Answer

Depending on how your code is written, it might be possible to post the results of your request to the field in the code page itself. You would need to add something like this to your code after the request:

$.post(dbid, {
act: "API_EditRecord",//or API_AddRecord, depending on what you're trying to do
rid: rid,
_fid_6: yourtext
}).then(function(xml) {
//go to url
});
}

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A Brown
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Displaying code page content in text formula