{"id":884,"date":"2022-12-21T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/?p=884"},"modified":"2022-12-21T10:39:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:39:11","slug":"event-action-open-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/docs\/game-launcher-creator-v3\/event-action-open-url\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Action &#8211; Open URL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/12\/image-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-885\" width=\"598\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/12\/image-20.png 752w, https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/12\/image-20-300x87.png 300w, https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/12\/image-20-150x44.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/help\/open-url-action\/\">Open URL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/help\/what-is-event-actions\/\">event action<\/a> allows you to specify which URL to go to. This can be any web page\/web site\/URL. You must specify the protocol (ie: http\/https:\/\/) at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developer Edition users can enjoy the additional parameters property. This allows you to send specific parameters as queries to the URL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the above example, we want to send a Custom <a href=\"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/help\/system-and-custom-variables\/\">Variable<\/a> which we took from a text box inside the launcher. The user can input text into this text box, which is converted into a <a href=\"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/help\/system-and-custom-variables\/\">custom variable<\/a> and then sent along this action as a parameter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open URL event action allows you to specify which URL to go to. This can be any web page\/web site\/URL. You must specify the protocol (ie: http\/https:\/\/) at the beginning. Developer Edition users can enjoy the additional parameters property. This allows you to send specific parameters as queries to the URL. In the above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-launcher-creator-v3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byteboxmedia.support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}