Hey Dick, really cool that you're making the jump from FileMaker to AppDrag - I can see why it appealed to you!
If I understand right... you're trying to have a user fill out a field, then later retrieve that field's value to put it in the parameters of a URL (for a GET request?)
AppDrag loads a basic version of jQuery with their pages (2.2.4) - you can check out the documentation and it's really helpful for doing things like selecting field values.
The code will be something like this:
$("#id-of-button-user-will-click").click(function () { // Select the 'search' button and assign a function to run upon clicking
var importantParameter = $("#id-of-field-with-value").val(); // Selects the field with the user's input and gets the value of the text entered with .val()
var apiUrl = "http://www.site.com/api/endpoint"
var settings = {
"url": apiUrl,
"data": {
"nameOfParameterApiExpects" : importantParameter
},
"dataType": "json", // NOTE this is not included in the documentation, but I use it to avoid having to parse JSON responses from the server each time... :)
"method": "GET",
"async": true,
"crossDomain": true,
"processData": true
};
$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) { // ajax = request for server content, using the variables stored in settings.
console.log(response); // Log the response to the console.
});
}
You should note that if you click the "Doc" button on the right side of your API function's page, it will take you to a page that has sample code (pretty much exactly what I copy/pasted above, minus the selection of the variable from the field).
I highly recommend checking that out, because you can fill out parameters and it will show you the right code implementation of that. VERY useful, a hidden gem of AppDrag.
