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Resolved lowercas3
(@lowercas3)

2 years ago

Hello, I’m wondering if there’s an easy way to pull a real time number from another site (such as time of day, current temperature, exchange rate, etc.) and use it as an input for a calculation?

Thank you (and also for an excellent plugin)

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Plugin Author codepeople
(@codepeople)

2 years ago

Hello @lowercas3

Thank you very much for using our plugin. The answer to your question depends on the source of the data. If the data are generated by an API you can activate the ” CFF – SERVER-SIDE Equations” add-on (Distributed with the Developer and Platinum plugin versions), implement a server-side equation to get the information from the external source, and finally call it from your form.

Note you can call the same server-side equation from multiple forms, so, you would need to implement it only once.

Learn more about the “CFF SERVER-SIDE Equations” add-on by reading the following blog post:

https://cff.dwbooster.com/blog/2018/10/01/server-side-equations

The server-side equations have many other uses, you can find some of them in the following posts:

https://cff.dwbooster.com/blog/2019/08/04/partial

https://cff.dwbooster.com/blog/2019/11/05/case-of-use-filtering-products

https://cff.dwbooster.com/blog/2022/12/10/case-of-use-getting-distance-with-bingmaps/

Best regards.

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