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QuickBaseCoachD
7 years agoQrew Captain
There are Browser limits to the maximum length of a URL.. Internet Explorer has a limit of 2083 characters and other browsers will have larger limits. You could expose the URL itself on a form by removing its label and copy and paste into Word and use the tool to count characters to see how long it is.
An alternative is to use an Automation to do these steps. You would trigger it by toggling a checkbox field.
The issue there will be the last three steps which is deleting records. For reasons I do not understand, the records are deleted "one by one", so its super slow to run as opposed to it being programmed to use API_Purge, which always seems to run instantly. If you have thousands of records to delete it will take a while to run and may even time out, I suppose.
An alternative is to use an Automation to do these steps. You would trigger it by toggling a checkbox field.
The issue there will be the last three steps which is deleting records. For reasons I do not understand, the records are deleted "one by one", so its super slow to run as opposed to it being programmed to use API_Purge, which always seems to run instantly. If you have thousands of records to delete it will take a while to run and may even time out, I suppose.