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MichaelBretton
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6 years ago
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Form access/URL??

Hi folks Wondering if you can help? My app tracks a set of customers (as in B2B brands) who are our clients (we are a software company) - Each customer has consultancy time bundled into their co...
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  • BlakeHarrison's avatar
    BlakeHarrison
    6 years ago
    Double-check the URL that you've entered into the dashboard. The easiest way to make sure you have the correct URL is to start a new record and then add &dfid=## (## being the ID of your form) to the end of it. Once you've verified that it's now re-directed you to your new form, copy/paste the entire URL from your address bar into the URL field of the button/link you're building on the form.

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    Blake Harrison
    bharrison@datablender.io
    DataBlender - Quick Base Solution Provider
    Atlanta GA
    404.800.1702 / http://datablender.io/
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BlakeHarrison
Qrew Captain
6 years ago
So, your standard 'Add Record' URL formula would be something like this:

URLRoot() & "db/" & [dbid_alias] & "?a=nwr"​To direct a user to a different form on that table, you'll add the form ID to the formula like this:

URLRoot() & "db/" & [dbid_alias] & "?a=nwr&dfid=10"​

Just go into the settings on that table and under 'Forms' find the Form ID and replace the '10' in my example with the correct number.



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Blake Harrison
bharrison@datablender.io
DataBlender - Quick Base Solution Provider
Atlanta GA
404.800.1702 / http://datablender.io/
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  • MichaelBretton's avatar
    MichaelBretton
    Qrew Member
    6 years ago
    Hi Blake,

    Thanks for your reply and for the formula - Sadly I can't work out how I can link out to it. I can't see how I can add a button on the Home page to direct to this new form? Or within the table, it only shows a button that says 'New Timecard' which takes you to the default.

    • I want to add a button to access it to the homepage for that user or even at the top of the main table report if I can, but I can't manage to find the URL to access that form anywhere
    Hope that makes sense?

    Thanks,
    Michael

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    • BlakeHarrison's avatar
      BlakeHarrison
      Qrew Captain
      6 years ago
      So, is this form always the one you want a specific User Role to utilize when adding a record to this table? If so, you can modify what form that Role defaults to here:

      If not, you can add it to their dashboard by adding it to either a Link or Button widget. Instead of selecting the 'New Record' option, you'll have to select the URL option:
      And, since we can't do the formula here, you have to enter in the Add Record URL for that form, which would be in this format:
      https://mydomain.quickbase.com/db/mytabledbid?a=nwr&dfid=##​
      You'll need to replace the placeholders above - mydomain, mytabledbid, and ## 


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      Blake Harrison
      bharrison@datablender.io
      DataBlender - Quick Base Solution Provider
      Atlanta GA
      404.800.1702 / http://datablender.io/
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      • MichaelBretton's avatar
        MichaelBretton
        Qrew Member
        6 years ago

        Thanks Blake....

        the form will not be specific to a role, no - so, going with your second option, just so I am clear, is the URL meant to look as below:

        https://mydomain.quickbase.com/db/mytabledbid?a=nwr&dfid=10

        (with 10 being the ID of the form)

        ....if that's the case, it's throwing up a 404 error message?





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