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DavidMaskasky
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7 years ago

Using Table Aliases in the URLs

Hi Everyone. I just discovered that you can use table aliases instead of table dbids to access tables. Like this:   https://<your quickbase domain>/db/<app dbid>/(<table alias>)?a=td The table...
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DavidMaskasky
Qrew Trainee
7 years ago
Type it into the address bar.  Try it!

Here's an example:
https://davidsbakery.quickbase.com/db/bfhqnt2n2/(_DBID_CUSTOMERS)?a=td
  • bfhqnt2n2 is my app id
  • _DBID_CUSTOMERS is my table alias
I know its weird to have both the app id and the table alias, but consider that the table alias is defined by the original name of the table and that two separate applications can both have the a table with the same table alias.  So the app id is required.