Passing a url Parameter

Need help
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Hello All,

How can i navigate to a page and pass a parameter to the url. for example when user click on a cell i can pass parameter “xx” to the navigated to page.

thanks

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hi
as far as i know, only way to do it is with link in text field [ url= ELEMENT’s link&parameter=WWW ] YYYY [ /url]
or with external link in link element

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On a [link] element, select the ‘external url’ option, not ‘internal page’. Then hardcode the name-value pair of the parameter at the end of the ‘destination url’ value, like this:

<website-url>?<parameter-name>=<parameter-value>

When you go to that page you can read the parameter value using the ‘Get ? parameter from page url’ and selecting its value.

The ‘?’ denotes the start of parameters in the url; you can include multiple parameters by separating them with ‘&’

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Interesting. thanks i will give that a try. Its a shame we cannot use the workflow to have something like this.

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You can trigger this in the workflow: use the sequence ‘Navigation > Open an external website’.

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As above, you can pass “parameters” around (if they are not things, that is a lot easier). But it can be a real pain to read them back in at times.

I tend to find storing the data on the User temporarily is the easiest way, I have done this with my Global search.

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We just added this to the link and the change page action. Check the box and you’ll be able to define some key/values.

See http://bubble.is/reference#Elements.Link.add_parameters

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Thanks @emmanuel

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hey @emmanuel i believe i found a small bug.

when trying to pass a parameter using the workflow on the “User is logged out” event it does not succeed. if i try the same on a button it works fine. can you have a quick look.

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Can you reproduce this on an app we can test? Thanks.

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Here you are.

username: ali.farahat@gmail.com
password: 1234

I have added some buttons to assist

https://testapplog.bubbleapps.io/version-test/index

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so what is supposed to happen? There’s no parameter for the go to action on this page…

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its on this page

https://testapplog.bubbleapps.io/version-test/checkifloogedout

the workflow runs if the user is logged out

Whats suppose to happen is that when page “checkifloogedout” is open and the user is not logged in then i would like to navigate the user to the index page with a parameter

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That was a bug indeed, we’ll push a fix today.

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Thanks much appreciated.

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as someone who isnt a coder, can somebody give me an idea or some examples of case uses for passing a URL parameter? My brain overflows with ideas of how i can incorporate something into my app when i know how it can be used for other things. thanks a bunch!

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https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bubble&oq=bubble+&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l5.5855j0j4&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Several parameters … They all cone after the ? And are separated by &

q = the Google search I entered (“bubble”)

And then bunch of stuff about where I did the search.

So you could pass search parameters to a search page on bubble in the same way.

You can use this where there is no “thing” to pass, so for a search you have to pass the search term.

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awesome! I always wondered how to do this!

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Hey guys,
somebody know if is possible to pass a temp password through an url parameter?

I am trying, but when get the temp password in the password cell using GET, I only get two characters. Is this restricted?

Thank you guys 

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I haven’t tried, but I assume you can’t do that, as exposing a password in a URL is a huge security risk.