Form(s) on Home Page

It's hard to even picture a solution which did not involve a button click.  So your hope is that the user would come into the app and automatically be on a Add Record form in Add mode? 

And if I may ask, considering it is an internal application, is it too much to ask the staff, who are presumably employee users,  land on a dashboard and have only two giant buttons to click, like Click here for form A and click here for form B?

There is potentially a simple solution here by simply embedding the form as an iFrame on the dashboard using a web page widget. You could add the parameter &ifv=1 if desired to strip out QB branding.

That would probably work. Meredith. Where do you want to direct the User to after the save?

When you use the &ifv=1 you will need to add a Save Button to the form as well.

Hi Meredith,

I needed somthing like this for customers to fill out a form and submit it to our Quick Base.

I used a "pages" Code Page to make a stand alone HTML page with a standard HTML Input form.
w3schools.com is a great resource for the details of the HTML page.
This may be a bit of a learning curve, and it is worth it!

The web page is submitted to Quick Base as an API call.

In summary, these are the key elements.   

1)  Start the HTML form:
Tutorial here:   https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_type.asp


<!-- Standard QuickBase form Header.  Update the Token ID as needed.  -->
<form name=qdbform method=POST onsubmit='return validateForm(this)' 
encType='multipart/form-data' action=https://intuitcorp.quickbase.com/db/your-db-id-here?act=API_AddRecord&apptoken=your-token-here>
<input type=hidden name=fform value=1>


2)  Ask for the fields you want to input (I used a table for formatting, which may be old-fashioned these days -- but it works.):



<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=1>      

<tr>    <!-- Set up the Yes / No response area  -->

<td bgcolor="#F4F4EA" style="text-align:center;">&nbsp; Yes &nbsp;</td>
<td bgcolor="#F4F4EA" style="text-align:center;">&nbsp; No &nbsp;</td>

</tr>

<tr>      <!-- The Answer Buttons.  Set the desired Field ID.   This is a Yes/No question. -->

<td bgcolor="#F4F4FA" style="text-align:center;"><input type='radio' name= _fid_9 id= _fid_9 value="Yes"  /></td>
<td bgcolor="#F4F4FA" style="text-align:center;"><input type='radio' name= _fid_9 id= _fid_9 value="No"  /></td>

</tr>

</table>



_fid_9 is the Quick Base Field ID I want this specific data to be placed in.  You can get the Field ID numbers from the Fields list in Quick Base.




3)   End the HTML form with the SUBMIT button:


<!-- * -->
<!-- Quietly pass the fact that this is the OM Save VOC. -->
<!-- * -->

<input type="hidden"   name= _fid_13  id= _fid_13  value="OM Save VOC.">


<!-- * -->
<!-- You can Pass a piece of standard information to the Quick Base record with This Method -->
<!-- * -->

<input type="hidden"   name= _fid_11  id= _fid_11  value="The Text You Want to Send in Quotes>



<!-- * -->
<!-- Pass the URL for the Thank You page (which is another Quick Base Code Page)  -->
<!--  Used the HTML form's  "rdr" for Redirect URL option -->
<!-- * -->

<input type=hidden name=rdr value='https://intuitcorp.quickbase.com/db/your-dbid-ID-here?a=dbpage&pageID=the-page-ID-Number-of-your-Thank-You-Page-Here'>;



<!-- * -->
<!-- Center the Submit button on the page. -->
<!-- * -->


<table width = 100%>
<tr>
<td> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</td>
<td>
<input type=submit value="Submit Survey">
</td>
<td> &nbsp;  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>


</form>



The page was set as the dashboard for the customer role (in my case "everyone on the internet".)
It was the only thing they could do for security.

If your audience is internal and you can just give them a link and have them bookmark it.
Then anytime they want to come and submit  a form they just go to the page directly.

I trust this is useful.

- David