# How to append random string to URL on every button press?

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-append-random-string-to-url-on-every-button-press/70058>\
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**Created:** [January 26, 2024, 11:27am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-append-random-string-to-url-on-every-button-press/70058 "2024-01-26T11:27:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![BoilingJD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@BoilingJD](https://community.glideapps.com/u/BoilingJD)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 11:27am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-append-random-string-to-url-on-every-button-press/70058/1 "2024-01-26T11:27:40Z")

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Hi,

Could use some help solving this riddle. We want to integrate our glide app with our Jitsi server, the idea being that every time a person pressed ‘start meeting’ button. it takes them to a link that has following format:

[https://domain.com/random-string](https://domain.com/random-string)

that random-string is basically meeting/room id and it needs to be different on every butom press. So that every time user starts a meeting, it starts a new meeting, rather than dropping them into old room.

is there a way of doing this that does no involve a table just to store meeting id values ? Can random string value be appended to ling on the fly ?

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-append-random-string-to-url-on-every-button-press/70058/2 "2024-01-26T13:42:41Z")

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I’d probably have a Set Column action somewhere in your flow that writes a Unique ID to a column. Then use that unique ID with your url.

> **[Unique Identifier | Glide Docs](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/reference/values/unique-identifier)**
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> Submit a unique ID automatically.

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**Author:** ![BoilingJD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@BoilingJD](https://community.glideapps.com/u/BoilingJD)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-append-random-string-to-url-on-every-button-press/70058/3 "2024-01-26T16:36:04Z")

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yes it appears that’s my best bet, I had to re work the implementation to be a table rather than a button. Is there a way I can make the table clean itself up automatically by deleting old entries ?

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-append-random-string-to-url-on-every-button-press/70058/4 "2024-01-26T16:40:18Z")

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Hard to say without fully understanding your setup. You shouldn’t need to keep adding new rows for each meeting unless that’s what you want. Instead it could be a single row table with user specific columns which create the url, and somewhere in your flow you use a set column action to clear out the values when you are done with them.