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TylerParker1
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6 years ago

Using a field or variable with a button

Just wondering if anyone has any experience using a user-specific record ID within a URL button on a dashboard.

The button would be for viewing your personal employee record in the employees table.

I have a formula field in the employees table that looks at the current user's employee's ID number and returns their profile's record ID.

Is there any way I can utilize this in a URL, something like...

URL Root() & "db/" &

& "?a=dr&rid=" & [Current User Record ID]


Thanks for your time



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  • MarkShnier__You's avatar
    MarkShnier__You
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    6 years ago
    The way to do this is to put a single record report on the dashboard filtered by where Userid is the current user. if you just have a single button on the report and make sure the report is squeezed into a third of the screen it does not look too bad.

    You can also try the look as a web page widget with the URL and a suffix of &ifv=1, but I think that would load more slowly.

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    • TylerParker1's avatar
      TylerParker1
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      6 years ago
      Thanks for the suggestion Mark! That's actually what I have in place right now, and the users were asking if the button would be possible, but I suppose not as far as I can tell.

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