You will notice an Excel that if you type a number into a cell that number is not recognized in formulas in other cells until you tab out of the cell.
It is the same with QuickBase. The system does not see your entry until your cursor leaves that Cell. So I suggest that you contrive your form so that the user needs to check a checkbox or do something in order to expose the URL button with a form rule. What I did for one client was to make a checkbox that says
"I am not a robot"
This was for an EOTI app and I was trying to mimic the familiar Captcha behaviour to give these untrained external users a reason to check a checkbox. But in my case it was the same as yours. I was just trying to get the user to tab out of the field after entering a password so that my URL button formula would see their entry correctly.
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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