Bug in parsing URL?

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I have a couple of fields for Latitude and Longitude and I’m then using a formula field to construct the URL to Google Maps.

The formula looks like this

“ttps://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=” & {Latitude} & “,” & {Longitude}

(note: leading h removed on https to stop it changing to link in this post)

and that works absolutely fine. If I copy the field contents in Softr databases into a browser it opens the location correctly.

But on a detail page I have a URL field as below

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and this truncates the URL removing everything after the last comma. It doesn’t appear to make any difference if I have spaces around the comma or not.

The setup of the field is like this:

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If you have the field as a text field, it displays the full URL

Is this a bug - why doesn’t it display the full URL ?

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Fixed it, but thought I would post here in case others hit the same.

In the formula you can’t have the , because Softr truncates the URL at that point, but in the formula you can have “&2c” instead and that works.

Hopefully the map function will work on Softr databases soon and I can do away with using a link.

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Hey @Bitstreams Thanks a lot for keeping us posted, yes Map blocks are on the way for Softr Databases!

Best regards,