populate user ID to a field
I need to be able to extract a user ID from a selected user. The process is as follows: When I select a user in a form, I would like to have a formula text field that populates the UserID from...
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I hope you got a satisfactory result all those years ago -- for future searchers (like me!) I found the quickbase fuction "UserToID" which returns the quickbase user ID.
In my use case, i'm creating a QR code for a badge - the QR code has the userID embedded - that calls to a 3rd party website that pulls specific data via the API from quickbase about the user. So it'd be something like www.badgegizmo.com?userid=1231231.zzzz that would show a page of cool stuff about that user.
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Malcolm McDonald
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In my use case, i'm creating a QR code for a badge - the QR code has the userID embedded - that calls to a 3rd party website that pulls specific data via the API from quickbase about the user. So it'd be something like www.badgegizmo.com?userid=1231231.zzzz that would show a page of cool stuff about that user.
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Malcolm McDonald
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