There’s a new column in the Glide Data Editor— Construct URL. As the name suggests, it lets you create a URL using static values or from column values. The advantage of using Construct URL over a template column is that all the parameters are URL encoded (aka Percent Encoded)— read more about that h…

This is incredible useful, thank you!

Excellent. I guess these URLs will be measured in Analytics right? Or if we build a URL we can know the traffic it generates.

One problem I see with the URL builder is that you can’t do it with deep links, it always takes you to the home of the app.

[image] URL Encode and Decode - Online Encode to URL-encoded format (also known as "percent-encoded") or decode from it with various advanced options. Our site has an easy to use online tool to convert your data.

Just dropping a link here, as it’s relevant to this topic and may be useful if someone comes looking for an example of how to use it. [image] heart_eyes Quickchart.io: the Cloudinary of Charts —on the fly charts! Community Resources So here is the one I did using the Cons…

Templates work too—construct URL is unique in that it percent-encodes the URL

I believe only construct URL column does that automatically, because I was having problems with Quickchart back in the days when I used template column.

This has nothing to do with the possibility to create shorter shared links to the app, right?

🔗 NEW Construct URL Column

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Jeff_Hager March 11, 2021, 1:01pm 20

I had replied to one of you other posts regarding this question. If you saw it already, you can ignore. If not, here it is.

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🔗 NEW Construct URL Column

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