Accessing the Parent URL

Hi Fellow Makers!

Here’s my goal: I have a nested Webflow collection that I’m trying to connect with the help of 2 Make scenarios. The first collection is created using a form, which then becomes a collection page with another form in it. I need to link them together so that the parent collection only shows data collected from that item.

I initially tried with Webflow forms but the form needs an attachment and I didn’t want to upgrade to a more expensive plan just to support it. So now I have 2 forms in Airtable, deployed as iFrames in my Webflow site. I’ve built 2 Scenarios in Make to move the data from Airtable to Webflow.
Scenario 1: Watches for the Airtable record and creates a Webflow collection entry.

Scenario 2: Watches for the Airtable record from the 2nd form and creates a Webflow collection entry in the 2nd collection. The trick here is that I need to also persist the parent collection ID in this collection.

The only way I could think of is to access the URL where the 2nd iFrame is in because that has the collectionID in the address. Which leads me to my main question: is there a Make module that let’s me access the parent URL? If not, any suggestions on how I can access it?

Many thanks,
Sweta

Howdy Sweta,

Have you considered saving something to Make’s Data Store during scenario one to look up in scenario two to help connect the data together for an aggregation?

Thanks for replying, Michael. I ended up using prefilled forms with hidden fields to share context between both forms. It’s been working so far :crossed_fingers:

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