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AustinK
6 years agoQrew Commander
I'm not sure how Tableau works as I've never used it. It really depends on how Tableau does the multiple choices. The way QuickBase wants them is like "fid=114&choice=Bob
&choice=Mary". From doing a quick read on url actions with Tableau it looks like you can setup a delimiter character in it for the multiple fields. Their FAQ is not great.
The url you want to end up with is something like this and it doesn't seem possible with the FAQ I looked at. I would have to actually mess around with the program and I cannot do that. The problem is QuickBase does not want to accept delimited data in the url that way. It might be possible using XML but I will leave that to someone else.
https://target_domain/db/target_dbid?a=API_FieldAddChoices&fid=114&choice=Bob
&choice=Mary&apptoken=app_token
Doing a little more research it seems like this is not something that will come easy. The top post there from QuickBase Coach says it is not the easiest thing and he knows what he is talking about when it comes to QuickBase. Maybe you are trying to do less with it but I would look into what they are saying.
https://community.quickbase.com/quickbase/topics/how-to-link-quickbase-with-tableau
&choice=Mary". From doing a quick read on url actions with Tableau it looks like you can setup a delimiter character in it for the multiple fields. Their FAQ is not great.
The url you want to end up with is something like this and it doesn't seem possible with the FAQ I looked at. I would have to actually mess around with the program and I cannot do that. The problem is QuickBase does not want to accept delimited data in the url that way. It might be possible using XML but I will leave that to someone else.
https://target_domain/db/target_dbid?a=API_FieldAddChoices&fid=114&choice=Bob
&choice=Mary&apptoken=app_token
Doing a little more research it seems like this is not something that will come easy. The top post there from QuickBase Coach says it is not the easiest thing and he knows what he is talking about when it comes to QuickBase. Maybe you are trying to do less with it but I would look into what they are saying.
https://community.quickbase.com/quickbase/topics/how-to-link-quickbase-with-tableau