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13-Aquamarine
November 11, 2025
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Create Mashup URL with Initial Infotable Parameter

  • November 11, 2025
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Hi all,

 

I am aware that you can set a mashup parameter using a URL for example:

<<THINGWORX>>/Mashups/TestMashup?thingName=TestThing

 

However, I have a use case where I would like to preload an infotable property into the URL. Is this possible? And if it is does anyone know the syntax?

Best answer by nmutter

I tested with urlencoded serialized infotable and it worked

{"dataShape":{"fieldDefinitions":{"description":{"name":"description","description":"Entity description","baseType":"STRING","ordinal":0,"aspects":{}},"name":{"name":"name","description":"Entity name","baseType":"STRING","ordinal":0,"aspects":{"isPrimaryKey":true}}}},"rows":[{"description":"world","name":"Hello"}]}

url encoded:

http://localhost/Thingworx/Runtime/index.html?mashup=Test&entities=%7B%22dataShape%22:%7B%22fieldDefinitions%22:%7B%22description%22:%7B%22name%22:%22description%22,%22description%22:%22Entity%20description%22,%22baseType%22:%22STRING%22,%22ordinal%22:0,%22aspects%22:%7B%7D%7D,%22name%22:%7B%22name%22:%22name%22,%22description%22:%22Entity%20name%22,%22baseType%22:%22STRING%22,%22ordinal%22:0,%22aspects%22:%7B%22isPrimaryKey%22:true%7D%7D%7D%7D,%22rows%22:%5B%7B%22description%22:%22world%22,%22name%22:%22Hello%22%7D%5D%7D

and it did render my grid which bound the entities mashup parameter:

nmutter_0-1762952495874.png

mashup config:

nmutter_1-1762952619071.png

 

Not sure if there is a more compact way for this. I dont think you can pass too much data to it via url this way...

 

Maybe you could have some "landing" mashup which would navigate to your target mashup, passing wanted default parameters instead?

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nmutter16-PearlAnswer
16-Pearl
November 12, 2025

I tested with urlencoded serialized infotable and it worked

{"dataShape":{"fieldDefinitions":{"description":{"name":"description","description":"Entity description","baseType":"STRING","ordinal":0,"aspects":{}},"name":{"name":"name","description":"Entity name","baseType":"STRING","ordinal":0,"aspects":{"isPrimaryKey":true}}}},"rows":[{"description":"world","name":"Hello"}]}

url encoded:

http://localhost/Thingworx/Runtime/index.html?mashup=Test&entities=%7B%22dataShape%22:%7B%22fieldDefinitions%22:%7B%22description%22:%7B%22name%22:%22description%22,%22description%22:%22Entity%20description%22,%22baseType%22:%22STRING%22,%22ordinal%22:0,%22aspects%22:%7B%7D%7D,%22name%22:%7B%22name%22:%22name%22,%22description%22:%22Entity%20name%22,%22baseType%22:%22STRING%22,%22ordinal%22:0,%22aspects%22:%7B%22isPrimaryKey%22:true%7D%7D%7D%7D,%22rows%22:%5B%7B%22description%22:%22world%22,%22name%22:%22Hello%22%7D%5D%7D

and it did render my grid which bound the entities mashup parameter:

nmutter_0-1762952495874.png

mashup config:

nmutter_1-1762952619071.png

 

Not sure if there is a more compact way for this. I dont think you can pass too much data to it via url this way...

 

Maybe you could have some "landing" mashup which would navigate to your target mashup, passing wanted default parameters instead?

13-Aquamarine
November 12, 2025

This did work, but I found for my case it was easier to send query parameters through the URL then call a query of the data in the mashup, rather than trying to push a large infotable of data through the URL.

16-Pearl
November 12, 2025

this sounds better, indeed 🙂