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How to display the table name from dbid

  • November 8, 2018
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JimHarrison
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This may be obvious but I am not finding a solution anywhere.
I have a field where the dbid is input as text. I want to use a formula field to convert the dbid to the table name. Is this possible?

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    • EvanMartinez
    • Community Moderator
    • November 9, 2018
    Hi Jim,

    I can confirm unfortunately there isn't currently a pre existing formula function to convert a DBID into the corresponding table name. It is possible someone may have a non-native solution but using the native formulas there isn't one at this time. 
    • anomDiebolt
    • Quickbase Alumni
    • November 13, 2018
    Here is a novel solution. Paste this code into the console and it will generate a Case() formula that will lookup the dbname from the dbid:
    var formula = "Case([dbid],\n";
    $.get("main?act=API_GrantedDBs")
      .then(function(xml) {
        $("dbinfo", xml).each(function() {
          formula += '  "${$("dbid", this).text()}", "${$("dbname", this).text()}",\n';
        });
        formula += '  ""\n)';
        $("body").prepend("<textarea id=mytextarea>");
        $("#mytextarea").val(formula);
      });
    The formula will appear in a <textarea> that is spliced into the top of the page where you can copy the formula definition.
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