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IvanWeiss
Qrew Captain
6 years ago

Multi step API not triggering a new record creation

Hello everyone, relatively new and really getting into the idea of API buttons to automate a lot of things.  The first more complex one I am creating is the deal won button for an opportunity.  When t...
APIs and custom code
Formulas and functions
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
6 years ago
?a=API_GenAddRecordForm"  will pop up an Add Record form for a human user to complete and manually save.  That could only be used as the very last step in an API Button.

?a=API_AddRecord"  will create a record.

You want to use the latter API
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IvanWeiss
Qrew Captain
6 years ago
I actually do have that, I changed it to gen addrecordform in an attempt to troubleshoot to see if it ever showed the form.  It does not show the form and it does not add the record