Hi, I’d like to create a link out of information submitted through a form. The use case is the followingSomeone fills out a form at external lead form tool provider (Heyflow) A zap retrieves this information Some automation creates a URL of out this ← this is what I’m looking for The link will be stored in a Zapier table I can click on the link, ideally directly from a Zapier tableThe URL will be something like: sampleurl.com?name=[NAME]&address=[address]I understood that there is the Zapier Formatter, but I couldn’t get it running in the way I wanted to. Thanks a ton for your help :)

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How do I create custom links out of data?

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Hi,

I’d like to create a link out of information submitted through a form. The use case is the following

The URL will be something like:

sampleurl.com?name=[NAME]&address=[address]

I understood that there is the Zapier Formatter, but I couldn’t get it running in the way I wanted to.

Thanks a ton for your help :)

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Best answer by Troy Tessalone 18 September 2023, 17:19

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Hi @ssielmann

Good question.

You may need to use the Formatter to encode certain values to be used in the URL.

Formatter > Text > Encode

Here’s an example.

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Awesome, this works perfectly. Thank you so much! Obivous follow-up question: How do I store this value in Zapier table afterwards?

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Awesome, this works perfectly. Thank you so much! Obivous follow-up question: How do I store this value in Zapier table afterwards?

Figured it out myself, sorry for this :) Just can’t delete my reply...

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Awesome @ssielmann! Glad to hear you were able to get it sorted and thanks to Troy for pointing you in the right direction!

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