So I’m trying to understand what happened here. I wanted a ‘clicks’ field to increment when a link is clicked on and I set up this code to execute onclick on the front end for each of my 4 entries. When I clicked, not only did all 4 of my entries get wiped clean but the field setup as well. What’s w…

wrong endpoint /updateCollection/ updates the collection itself, its labels and fields config - not an entry You need to call /save/ instead: /api/collections/save/COLLECTION_NAME wrong params The params expected are { data: {_id: ENTRY_ID, ...}, // or array of entries [{_id: ...}, {_id:…

Thanks - that helped! It’s a little disappointing though that the docs were not clear enough. This is my code now: const updateClick = document.getElementsByClassName('update-click') for (var i=0, len=updateClick.length|0; i<len; i=i+1|0) { updateClick[i].onclick = function(e){ var data…

Oh I think you should do much more than just removing the clicks-value from the DOM because you should NOT have a write-access-token made public. Anybody could use it to write anything to your collection. Instead you might want to create a custom endpoint like /api/public/click that only expects…

Ok, why is the insecure option the default one in the docs?

Because they want to show you how to interact with Cockpit and its API - not how to architect your application. As long as you’d run those fetch commands in an SSR node application they would not expose any of it to the client. And nobody should need to tell you, a web developer, that running it i…

[image] abernh: … how you are making certain in the end, that the user really clicked the banner and visited the affiliated link. Here is an idea: create the custom endpoint to register the click AND to actually forward to the related affiliate link This way you’d not use JS to register a …

Thanks for the info and sample code. Will look at it in a couple days as I had to jump on another project.

It took a lot of searching for working code on github and these forums, but finally got everything to work, even updating the views value for each banner when it became visible in the front end carousel. I still have tons of questions though.

Erased all my entries AND the fields

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jcamachott August 9, 2021, 12:54pm 4

I’m thinking to modify this code some more so that I do not have the clicks value inside the html and instead pull it from the js array

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Erased all my entries AND the fields

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