Good news is that I got this to work, bad news is that it only works for one record ID since the HTML will only interpret static references and does not compile URLRoot(), Dbid(), and [Record ID#] functions and attributes....
Date field is empty:
And here is the code that performs this:
<a style= "text-decoration: none; background: #00ff00; border: 10px solid #00ff00; border-radius: 3px; color: #000000; display: inline-block; font: normal 700 20px/1 "Calibri", sans-serif; text-align: center; text-shadow: none; onclick='$("#saveAndKeepWorkingMenuOption").click();' href=https://
YOUR_REALM.quickbase.com/db/
YOUR_DBID?a=API_EditRecord&apptoken=
YOUR_APP_TOKEN&_fid_20=Approved&_fid_19=Today&rid=3&rdr=https%3A%2F%2F
YOUR_REALM.quickbase.com%2Fdb%2F
YOUR_DBID%3Fa%3Der%26rid%3D
3">Approve</a>
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Adam Keever
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