Default Value of Dropdown from URL Parameter

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Hello everyone…

I’m trying to preselect a Dropdown value from the URL Get Parameter, but I don’t know why it won’t work.

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I also tried with the condition…

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Still, it won’t select anything… I tried with the Option Set as a type and also with Data Type as a type

Anyone any idea how to do this?

Thanks
Fabian

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what do you set in the url parameter? the “name” or the unique ID? (if this is a data type).

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Hi there, @fabian.banushi… the issue is that the parameter in the URL is not a thing in your Location-City data type. So, in the Default value field, you likely need to do a search and get the first item from the Location-City data type where a field in that data type is equal to the value in the URL parameter.

Hope this helps.

Best…
Mike

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However, if you use unique ID… this is a thing and this can be used directly (and better to be used with the WU) instead of doing a search for

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It’s a name of a city

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So for every thing I have to do search for?

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So you need to use do a search. If you can replace it by the unique ID, you will avoid to use do a search

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Oh, wait… is that true, @Jici? I’m sure it is if you are saying it, but I thought even if the URL parameter is a unique ID, you still have to do a search for a thing with that ID. Huh, learn something new every day, eh? (I’m not sure why I didn’t know that already, though.)

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How do you suggest with unique ID? How is the “expression”?

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@mikeloc Absolutely no. If you set the unique id, let’s say param=12345678x12345678 and set the Get data from url “type” to the DB “type” (like @fabian.banushi did in the first screenshot), this will return the specific item set in the url parameters
@fabian.banushi just do like in your first screenshot, but instead of setting the name in url, set the unique_id

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Yeah, it works with Unique ID… What about the other method? Do I have to do search for and then first item?

How about when it is Multidropdown?

Thanks

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What about for performance? Which is more faster?

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unique id in url is faster and consume lest WU. From what I know, url parameters doesn’t handle list (in this case, a search is needed). For multidropdown (list), you may consider using cookies instead if you don’t want to store in DB

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I never used cookies before… How to do that? Can you reference a topic in the forum or an article?

Thanks again
Fabian

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What about a list of items? How can I send with URL Parameter to the next page? I’m trying to use Custom States also but it doesn’t work.

I mean I can send the parameters but I don’t know how to put them in Custom States (from page load)

Thanks again
Fabian

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Also you can store a list of unique IDs separated by a - or something, and on the next page split it back into a list and use Floppy Rehydrator to turn them into Things

Nvm though maybe a search would just be easier.

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Can you give a little more detail, please?

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