Pull User ID from URL to create dynamic text

[ted.w.barbeau]

I’m trying to do something relatively basic but can’t seem to find an answer in the forum.

In short, I’d like use a User ID contained in a URL to dynamically add text to a page in my app.

More specifically, the flow is like this:

• A user sends their own personalized link to a survey (the URL to this survey contains their User ID, hence making it personalized)
• When the recipient clicks on the link, they are taken to the survey (again, the URL contains their User ID)
• At the top of the page, I want to use that User ID to dynamically populate the senders name to the top of the form.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[marcuslate]

This might help:

Individual URL's for users

Hi @jacob, There is actually a way to extract the path from a URL, which lets you go about creating this kind of thing in a few different ways. You can store a user’s unique path string in a text field under the User type and then append that as a path to the profile page url. For example “myapp.com/profile/john-henry” or “myapp.com/profile/naturalfoodstore”. What you’d be storing is just “john-henry” or “naturalfoodstore”. So anytime you navigate to the profile page and want to specify a us…

I used that to create profile pages for users just based off the usernames in the URL.