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target=""_blank"" in New Dashboard Buttons

  • March 15, 2014
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Is there a way to have the New Button Bar or Links Bar elements open up in a new tab when linking to a URL? I have tried suffixing my URL with (space) target="_blank" but that just seems to entirely disable the Button/Link.


    • anomDiebolt
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    • March 15, 2014
    target is an attribute of an <a> tag and has no meaning as a parameter in the query string in a URL. There is no way to directly configure the New Button Bar or Links Bar to open in a new window and leave the current window alone.

    However, you could include a Web Page on the dashboard which included JavaScript that would modify the action of the Button or Link bar on the dashboard so that they would open in a new window.
    Thx Dan.  I will have to settle for a low tech solution.  I included in the title of the widget bar some user instructions (right click for new tab).
    • anomDiebolt
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    • April 2, 2014
    >I will have to settle for a low tech solution.

    I don't understand. What force is propelling you away from a script solution that will solve the problem? This makes no sense to me.
    I think that its one of the phobias on this list.  http://phobialist.com/  Perhaps its Logizomechanophobia  or maybe Javascriptophobia
    • anomDiebolt
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    • April 2, 2014
    Well at least we have correctly identified the problem:

         pho�bi�a_ /f_b__/ noun
         1.an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
         "he had a phobia about using JavaScript with QuickBase"

    JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web:

    http://blog.codinghorror.com/javascript-the-lingua-franca-of-the-web/

    Many of the questions asked in this forum would result in an absolute dead end if JavaScript was excluded. QuickBase should (1) replace the formula language with JavaScript, (2) support inclusion of a user specified JavaScript file on every page and (3) expand the published API so that every action that could be accomplished manually has a analog through the expanded API.
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