Know the base URL of the current environment

RE: Know the base URL of the current environment

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 13:50:32 GMT

[quote userid="98523" url="~/discussions/f/general/24862/know-the-base-url-of-the-current-environment/96212#96212"]I found that with the formula "extract(linktodocument(0, "doc"), """", "doc/")" it is obtained dynamically[/quote]

That's the way I've seen before. FWIW, this method still works but there's no guarantee it won't be removed / changed in the future without [much|any] notice; and also, I believe this was the method used before Environment Specific Constants were introduced (so, a while ago, now).

RE: Know the base URL of the current environment

vgarcmon — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:13:17 GMT

I have opted for the solution you mention Mike, the idea is to have the URL of the environment to report it in a response of a POST method in a webAPI. I found that with the formula "extract(linktodocument(0, "doc"), """", "doc/")" it is obtained dynamically but it is deprecated. Thanks to both of you.

RE: Know the base URL of the current environment

Peter Lewis — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 21:42:40 GMT

Agreed with Mike that having a constant is probably the best way. I'm curious though - can you talk more about your use case? There definitely are some reasons why you might need the URL, but there are also a decent number of out-of-the-box links that might meet your use case.

RE: Know the base URL of the current environment

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 15:38:37 GMT

Last I've checked, the "best practice" way to do this is to store the enviornment URL in a Constant. There are other unsupported / less-supported workarounds that can do it programatically, but they're pretty kludge-y in comparison with the elegant solution of a constant, unless *absolutely* needed for some reason.