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LijaHarris's avatar
LijaHarris
Qrew Trainee
2 years ago

Add Field to end of customRedirectURL Code Page

I was wondering if it was possible in the customRedirectURL to add a different field (and it's value) at the end of the URL.  For example, in my code below, the record ID is what is populated at the e...
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CDMAutomation
Qrew Member

You can do something like this which is a slimmed-down version of your code

var customRedirectURL = "https://xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx.quickbase.com/db/xxxxxxxxx?a=dbpage&pageID=2" + "&rid=" + $(data).find('rid').text() + "&AnotherVariable=" + $(data).find('XPathToXmlNode').text();

console.log(customRedirectURL);
window.location.href = customRedirectURL;

With JQuery, you can text from XML, for a given node, XML node using the this method:

$(data).find('[XPath]').text()

Where $(data) is the API response XML



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  • SimonH's avatar
    SimonH
    Qrew Cadet
    2 years ago
    API_AddRecord does not return other fields so you won't be able to use another field unless you make a separate request to get that records details using the newly generated rid

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