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How to have my custom Add Button Url on my dashboard return to the dashboard after it is saved?

  • January 28, 2016
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I have a custom Add Record url button on my dashboard that prepopulates a field and goes to a particular form. Right now on Save, the url redirects it to a report in my table. I want it instead to go back to my dashboard. What do I need to adjust in my formula below to make it go back to the dashboard after Save rather than to the report if my pageid=78:

https://salesstaff.quickbase.com/db/bjuz6j9xp?a=nwr&dfid=10&_fid_124=1&nexturl=https%3A%2F%2Fsalesstaff.quickbase.com%2Fdb%2Fbjuz6j9xp%3Fa%3Dq%26qid%3D19 

I tried changing the qid%3D19 to pageid%3D78, but that didn't work.

Direction appreciated! 

Dawn

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I suggest that you do this to get the proper code

Make a URL formula field like this in order to do the URLEncoding for the last part of the URL

"https://salesstaff.quickbase.com/db/bjuz6j9xp?a=nwr&dfid=10&_fid_124=1&nexturl="

& URLEncode("... and then paste in the URL of your page that you want to go to ending in ?a=showpage&pageid=78")



That URL formula will generate the text that you need to paste into the button on the Dashboard
here is an example fomr one of my apps

https://plastidip.quickbase.com/db/xxxxxxx?a=nwr&dfid=10&nexturl=%2Fdb%2Fyyyyyyy%3Fa%3Dshowpage%26pageid%3D78

in the above the xxxx was the table where I am adding a record and the yyyyy is the application home page id.

The action to show page is called ?a=showpage&pageid=78
  • DawnDawn
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  • January 31, 2016
As usual, Mark, you ROCK! Thank you so much! It amazing the things I can learn from you! Works like a charm...
:) thx.
  • anomDiebolt
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  • February 1, 2016
>Make a URL formula field like this in order to do the URLEncoding for the last part of the URL

You don't need to create an extra field to find the URL Encoded value of a URL. Rather just do this: (1) Press F12 to expose the browser's Development Tools, (2) click on the Console and (3) enter this line of JavaScript:

escape("https://plastidip.quickbase.com/db//db/yyyyyyy?a=showpage&pageid=78")

// output: "https%3A//plastidip.quickbase.com/db//db/yyyyyyy%3Fa%3Dshowpage%26pageid%3D78"

To URL Decode use unescape:

unescape("https%3A//plastidip.quickbase.com/db//db/yyyyyyy%3Fa%3Dshowpage%26pageid%3D78")

// output: "https://plastidip.quickbase.com/db//db/yyyyyyy?a=showpage&pageid=78"
Wow, that worked easily in Chrome.  unescape is also handy too as there is no Un-URLEncode function in QuickBase
  • anomDiebolt
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We will incrementally get you to accept JavaScript, jQuery, and eventually Category Theory.

In the meantime just repeat this to yourself endlessly:

jQuery is a Monad and a Monad is just a Monoid in the Category of Endofunctors, what's the problem?
You can also just add the URL for the homepage/dashboard after the &nexturl=, with no quotes.

https://salesstaff.quickbase.com/db/bjuz6j9xp?a=nwr&dfid=10&_fid_124=1&nexturl=https://salesstaff.quickbase.com/db/*********


where *********=your dashboard DBID
Apparently, something has changed in QB where adding a full URL after &nexturl= doesn't work. So now, if you add the dbid after &nexturl=, the link will work.
I agree.  This just broke today in my apps.  When I get a chance I will put in a bug ticket to ask if they consider this new behaviour a bug.
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