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So I've developed several processes that fully rely on query strings for a variety of reasons, and many of my users find it difficult to reverse engineer my sheets to develop similar solutions, even with the official smartsheet help guide. I've made a fairly basic tutorial so I don't have to keep explaining it, and thought it might be useful to some in the community.
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@L_123 is is brilliant. Thanks for the detailed work in development and sharing your work.
@L_123 Have you explored using the SUBSTITUTE function to replace all instances of spacial characters automatically?
="url_here?" + SUBSTITUTE(rest of formula for pre-filling, " ", "%20")
There are a few special circumstances that need specific handling such as "=" and "&" as well as if a column is a multi-select that is getting pre-filled. Are we connected on LinkedIn? I have something related to this that you may be interested in.
@L_123 I forgot you had this out here. Take a look at this thread including the link to the published sheet…
I have had quite a few use cases where I needed to use a formula to calculate an amount or amounts then join that amount into a text string, but when you do that, you lose your separators. If you want dollars, you also end up with no cents or single digit cents which can look a little wonky. The below formulas can…
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