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ZachCase
Qrew Trainee
8 years ago

What Does This Hidden Input Do, and Is It Safe to Remove for a Specific Use Case?

I am adding some functionality to a form that has a field that quietly updates the RedirectURL to a code page we have created. To get to this form, a user comes in from an "Add Entry" button on a reco...
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_anomDiebolt_
Qrew Elite
8 years ago
It isn't documented and it used in conjunction with returning to the prior page. I presume it is some type of optimization used to return to a cached version of the report stored on the QuickBase server rather than generating the report anew each time the page is visited. This is speculation.

In general you can delete these ancillary parameters. You might want to read the bottom of this post which provides some info on related issues:

Some Notes On QuickBase URLs
https://community.quickbase.com/quickbase/topics/some-notes-on-quickbase-urls-i-had-written-up
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_anomDiebolt_
Qrew Elite
8 years ago
I probably should add that RedirectURL parameter to the list of redirection mechanisms there are. I think there are about a half dozen of them scattered about QuickBase.

Mark if you are reading this I think you use a redirection parameter in some of your native URL examples that I have not enumerated. Save me a difficult search and let me know what is it?