QuickBase API Cookbook v3 - Recipe #98
Create links to other records inside HTML text fields
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You have a table with an HTML text field and you want to create links to other records in the HTML.
require 'QuickBaseclient'

qbc = QuickBase::Client.new(ENV["quickbase_username"],ENV["quickbase_password"])

dbid = "bdeapkrmj"
baseURL = "https://www.quickbase.com/db/#{dbid}?a=dr&rid="
links = {}

# collect all the possible links in the table using the values in a particular text field
qbc.iterateRecords(dbid,["Record ID#","tag"]){|record|
  if record["tag"] and record["tag"].length > 0
    links[record["tag"]] = "<a href='#{baseURL}#{record["Record ID#"]}&rl=rfe'>#{record['tag']}</a>"
  end  
}

# loop through all the values in a particular HTML text field and insert links to other records 
if links.length > 0
  qbc.iterateRecords(dbid,["Record ID#","text"]){|record|
    newText = record["text"].dup
    newText.gsub!("<BR/>","")
    links.each{|tag,url| 
      newText.gsub!(url,tag) # remove existing link so we don't duplicate it
      newText.gsub!(tag,url) 
    }
    qbc.clearFieldValuePairList
    qbc.addFieldValuePair("text",nil,nil,newText)
    qbc.editRecord(dbid,record["Record ID#"],qbc.fvlist)
  }
end
This example uses the all the values in the 'tag' field to create links to other records in all the 'text' fields.  The 'tag' field requires unique values but doesn't have to be the key field for the table.
wikifyTable.rb
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