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SarahBurres
Qrew Trainee
4 years ago

Logging Checkbox Fields

I made a checklist with an associated text and a dynamic rule of when the checkbox is checked it would log the user and time.  This worked perfectly on the desktop.  For whatever reason, this does not work on the tablet.  
Therefore I created automations to do the same thing.  This works better but is completely inconsistent.  I have the exact same rules on the exact same fields and it doesn't work on a few of the fields.  

Does anyone have a better solution?  I am desperate.  This easy checklist was supposed to go live this week and it is not working.  Help!!!

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Sarah Burres
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  • BlakeHarrison's avatar
    BlakeHarrison
    Qrew Captain
    4 years ago
    Have you considered using a button that would toggle the checkbox and capture the User and Timestamp with the same click?

    This is the basic formula that I use for that. You'll probably want to tweak it so that the user lands back on the checklist instead of the record, but this is the gist:
    var number box = IF([checkbox],0,1)
var text chk = "&_FID_68=" & $box;
var text usr = "&_FID_65=" & URLEncode(User());
var text time = "&_FID_65=now";
var text name = IF($box,"De-select Option","Select Option");
var text tk = "token";
var text URL =  URLRoot() & "db/" & Dbid() & "?a=API_EditRecord&apptoken=" & $tk & "&rid=" & [Record ID#] &
    $chk  &
    $time &
    $usr &
    "&rdr=" ;
var text Land = URLRoot() & "db/" & Dbid() & "?a=dr&rid=" & [Record ID#];

"<a class='Vibrant Success' & href='" & 

   $url &
        
        URLEncode($land)


& "'>" & $name & "</a>"​


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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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