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MackenziePhilli
Qrew Trainee
3 years ago

Anchor Links

Hello, Is it possible to create anchor links on forms? To have a button that will bring you down to a specific spot further down the form? Thanks ------------------------------ Mackenzie Phi...
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MarkShnier__You's avatar
MarkShnier__You
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Yes.  You can make an anchor tag as a Rich Text formula field like this and position it on the form near where you want to land the user.

"<a name=DealerClaim></a>"

Then suffix the URL that you are coming from with the #TagName

such as URLRoot() & "db/" & dbid() & "?a=dr&rid=" & [Record ID#​] & "#DealerClaim"​

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MikeBlinkhorn's avatar
MikeBlinkhorn
Qrew Member
8 months ago

I was just told by QB support that Anchor points (no longer?) work on legacy forms, but do work on New Forms.

I can confirm that the anchor tags are not working on a legacy form that I have, where I tried them.

FYI



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  • MarkShnier__You's avatar
    MarkShnier__You
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    8 months ago

    I have Anchor links that are still working to jump to a spot in a long form.



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    • MikeBlinkhorn's avatar
      MikeBlinkhorn
      Qrew Member
      8 months ago

      Interesting.  The anchors I implimented only jumped to the top of the page, if they worked at all.  Contacted QB support and they said, "Unfortunately you cannot navigate to specific parts of the legacy form nor to a specific tab. This should be doable in new forms however!".



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      • ChayceDuncan's avatar
        ChayceDuncan
        Qrew Captain
        8 months ago

        They still work in legacy forms in terms of anchoring, tabs are hit or miss but I don't believe those work. I still use anchors by putting text elements on legacy forms and giving it an html tag with an id like <p id='admin'></p> and then in your URL you can end it with #admin and it lands you where ever the admin id is. 



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