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Title: Passing in a variable to a iNomads transaction
Post by: Bob Sosbee on July 27, 2018, 04:01:03 PM

I want to create a clickable link from a report or email that when clicked will invoke the iNomads transaction that I want.  Currently, the link looks like http://bobtest.asifocus.com/?txid=testOrderMnt.pvx.

Can I add anything after the link like "?arg_1=MD" and would that pass in as arg_1$?  Something like http://bobtest.asifocus.com/?txid=testOrderMnt.pvx?arg_1=MD?arg_2=2018072412345rcO

Title: Re: Passing in a variable to a iNomads transaction
Post by: Mike King on July 27, 2018, 04:46:46 PM

No problem, the %inomads object includes properties/methods that can be used to access the argument list that was included with the original URL.

These include:

• %inomads'Url_Arg$(argno)
  Returns the URL argument/parameter indicated by argno. If no parameter is present at the specified argno, an Error #42 will be generated.
  
• %inomads'Url_Arg$(name$)
  Returns the value assigned to the specified URL parameter or "" if not set.
  
• %inomads'Url_Arg_Cnt
  Number of parameters found on the URL line.
  

So for your example you could set ARG_1$=%inomads'Url_Arg$("arg_1").

More information about inomads properties and methods can be found at this link (https://manual.pvxplus.com/page/iNOMADS/Object%20Properties%20and%20Methods.htm)

Title: Re: Passing in a variable to a iNomads transaction
Post by: Mike King on July 30, 2018, 11:16:46 AM

One quick note, on reviewing your original post you have the URL wrong.  In your post you asked about

http://bobtest.asifocus.com/?txid=testOrderMnt.pvx?arg_1=MD?arg_2=2018072412345rcO

A question mark (?) separates the site URL and its parameter list which is referred to as the query_string. 
For iNomads subsequent parameters should be separated by the ampersand (&) character. 
This is standard for most web sites.  (ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string)

So your URL to work under iNomads would need to be:

http://bobtest.asifocus.com/?txid=testOrderMnt.pvx&arg_1=MD&arg_2=2018072412345rcO

Title: Re: Passing in a variable to a iNomads transaction
Post by: Bob Sosbee on August 01, 2018, 03:20:14 PM

Cool!  That clarifies what I needed.  Thanks!