I guess I have it figured out. I set up a button to run a report with suffix &ifv=1. I did that to minimize the number of irrelevant images which the tool would find on a typical Quickbase page.
I had some trouble figuring out the syntax for the filters.
I got this from Chat GPT which gave some syntax examples upon the 2nd prompt. Then I also realized that to enable the filter, you need to click on "Disable Others'
Original Message:
Sent: 03-25-2023 23:52
From: Simon H
Subject: Recommendation for a download manager
When you launch it on a page it will show you a list of all URLs it has found. You can then choose from their prebuilt filters to limit the URLs that it actually will queue up for download.
For example you can choose to download just images which will grab all your attachments, however it will also fetch all icons and similar images on the page.
You can make your own filters using powerful filter expressions to specify the exact links you want only, then choose that filter when running DTA on your report.
DM on slack and we can hop on a huddle if you need a walk-through.
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Simon H
Original Message:
Sent: 03-24-2023 16:46
From: Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
Subject: Recommendation for a download manager
It does seem to be down loading all the file attachments on the report but it also downloads a whole bunch of images that are part of the built-in Quickbase UI.
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Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
Original Message:
Sent: 03-24-2023 16:42
From: Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
Subject: Recommendation for a download manager
I really appreciate your help here
Can you explain this
Select the preconfigured QB attachment filter and it will queue up downloads for all of them.
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Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
Original Message:
Sent: 03-24-2023 16:39
From: Simon H
Subject: Recommendation for a download manager
It runs within the context of the currently open page.
So for Quickbase you would navigate to the report and run it.
Select the preconfigured QB attachment filter and it will queue up downloads for all of them.
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Simon H
Original Message:
Sent: 03-24-2023 16:33
From: Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
Subject: Recommendation for a download manager
That was actually the one that I started with.
But I can't figure out though how to use its user Interface to point it to a Quickbase report URL? It seems to come up with a long list of website URLs which that browser has been on in the past and I cant figure out how to clear that list..
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Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
Original Message:
Sent: 03-24-2023 14:58
From: Simon H
Subject: Recommendation for a download manager
I had the exact same requirement and went with DTA (down them all)
It allows you to create a custom filter so you can set it to target URLs containing the base attachment URL up to the record id.
In my specific example i was targeting images in a rich text field that i was generating, so i was easily able to tag the field in a way that DTA could pick it up among all other urls
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Simon H
Original Message:
Sent: 03-24-2023 12:46
From: Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
Subject: Recommendation for a download manager
Can anyone recommend a stupid simple download manager, presumably a Browser Extension.
The use case is that I'm sitting on a report and want to download all the file attachments which are in a column on the report. I have tried out about 6 of them and can't figure out how any of them work.
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Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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