Secure link to a report

Question

Secure links to reports are mentioned in the Quickbase documentation and multiple places on the Quickbase website, but I can't find a single example.

I understand how secure links can be made for forms and records and know there are examples of this in the Exchange. But there is no example of how to create secure links to reports.

I figure one way to do it is create a key generator field, then an ask the user report, and filter to records where the result equals the key value. But just wondering if anyone has any other, better ideas?

MarkShnierYou · Answer

Well the table itself is open to EOTI subject to a Custom Permission rule. So I think the concept is not really that the link to the Report is Secure, but the set of records which is returned meets the criteria of the Custom Rule. So you need to come up with a strategy that the records themselves are "Secure".

So for example, let's say you had outside EOTI Vendors and the report was a report of Open Purchase Orders. Each PO knows the Vendor ID#, so you can make a Secure Link based on that Vendor ID# so that when you send a link to a report of the Open POs, that Vendor could not "hack" into other Vendor's Purchase Orders.

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