Scripts on Dashboard
A lot of users ask for functionality to be added to an application's dashboard through a Button and expect that there is an easy way to run a script on clicking the button. Unfortunately, Buttons adde...
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Hi Dave,
I just wanted to give you the heads up that Dan hasn't been around the forum in quite some time so you may not hear back from him on your question. I also wanted to let you know that the method Dan suggests here uses functionality that isn't supported by Quick Base and as we are working on future features it is possible for some of these methods to break or return invalid responses over time. I'm curious what are you trying to accomplish using this method? There may be some supported options we can recommend that would be able to get you to the sam result in a different method and aren't open to breaking. Thank you for your time today.
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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I just wanted to give you the heads up that Dan hasn't been around the forum in quite some time so you may not hear back from him on your question. I also wanted to let you know that the method Dan suggests here uses functionality that isn't supported by Quick Base and as we are working on future features it is possible for some of these methods to break or return invalid responses over time. I'm curious what are you trying to accomplish using this method? There may be some supported options we can recommend that would be able to get you to the sam result in a different method and aren't open to breaking. Thank you for your time today.
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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Hi Evan,
Thank you so much for this info and your response. What I am looking to accomplish with this method is to basically have a button on an Application Home Page that runs a simple Javascript script. I am learning Javascript at the moment and since we heavily use Quickbase here, i wanted to see how i could create a Javascript button on an Application page, that would basically run the script and return data specified on the script.
The other scenario I wanted to test was the ability to run Javascript using a button located in a Table Record. So for instance if i have three tables (A, B and C) Table A is the parent and B and C are the child tables. I would like to create a script that based on Table A it would lookup related records in Table B and create records into Table C based on the related records.
I wasnt sure where the best place to start with how Quickbase works with Javascript. Any help or guidance with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Dave
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Dave Medeiros
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- Dan almost always has a link to his Quick Base account which has every IOL and JavaScript technique he has posted afaik. That is a great place to start.
I don't know who runs the site but https://www.quickbase.dev/#introduction is a great website for this. They have a library for use with Quick Base that makes everything easier to do. https://github.com/tflanagan/node-quickbase They also have examples for both PHP and JavaScript.
All you really need to do is set up a code page with some basicl HTML and load the external scripts you need and then authenticate via the library or with the same calls the library would make for you. Store your token or user id(user id has some security concerns when storing it, someone could impersonate you if they got ahold of it) and then use that to make the calls you want.
