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QuincyAdam1
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8 years ago

How To Delete Record From Report Embedded On External Website

I have a delete button on my report, which works fine when I'm in QuickBase, but it will not work when the report is embedded on another website. My goal is to have the capability to delete a record f...
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AviSikenpore1
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8 years ago
Quincy,

Mark's method should be able to easily delete the record. However you need be aware of the fact that exposing usertoken on an external website is a security risk.

If you external website is public, I would suggest you basically add a new record in some table known as delete requests capturing the record ID of the original record.

Setup a webhook from that table to perform an API_DeleteRecord at the desired table.
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QuickBaseCoachD
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8 years ago
Good thought.