Hello, I'm wondering if there's any clever solutions to route to the file manage plug-in so end users can add documents to child records when they are also adding a parent record. I know natively that's not available due to lack of RID on the parent.
But I was hoping to leverage some other formulas I've used in the past to circumvent this issue, but I'm getting syntax errors when I attempt to combine elements - I'm curious if this is user error or due to the plug-in it's simply not adaptable?
general use case:
User adds accounting record for invoicing, as a legal requirement in 2026 they have to now add several large documents for which I would like to leverage the file manager plugin.
Samples of what I've concocted:
The intention is to save before navigating/opening the file manager and/or use the %%rid%% to provide a new RID for the parent record so the user can bulk add documents with the parent form submission - I think I've scrambled somethings:
//original plug=in URL. do not tamper
var Text realmHostName = NotRight(NotLeft(URLRoot(), 8), "/");
var Text pidRaw = "" & [Record ID#] & "";
var Text pidQueryParam = URLEncode($pidRaw);
var Text URL="https://api.plugins.quickbase.com/launch?pluginId=qb-uploader&pid=" & $pidQueryParam & "&configId=#####&appId="&AppID()&"&realmHostname=" & URLEncode($realmHostName);
//"var text URL="" and end ";" added when updated to rich text formula.
//button colors
var text bgcolorone = "#7f81aa"; var text txtcolorone = "white"; var text styleone =
"style=\"text-decoration: none; width: 100px; text-align: center; background:" & $bgcolorone & "; border-radius: 5px; padding: 5px 5px; color: " & $txtcolorone & "; display: inline-block; font: normal 700 40px/1 \"Calibri\", sans-serif; text-shadow: none;";
"<a class= 'SaveBeforeNavigating' " & $styleone & " data-replaceRid=true href='/db/abc?a=dr&rid=%%rid%%'" & $URL & "'> Upload Documents </a>"
If this isn't possible, are there alternative solutions out there?
Thank you for your help!
