https://docs.retool.com/docs/custom-api-authentication While setting up a REST Resource with Custom Auth using a Form (modal) and API Request flow, I ran into an issues where fields in the API Request form only allow you to inject the exact value from the Form fields. For my case, I need to concate…

Hi :wave: Unfortunately, we don't support JS in Custom Auth flows, it's a request that's already on our radar but I can't make any guarantees about when it will come to the platform. In the meantime, if you're looking to prepare inputs for your auth you'll have to do it in the app itself using a mo…

Custom API Authentication should allow the use of btoa()

💬 Feature Requests

Kabirdas May 22, 2023, 5:55pm 11

Hey folks!

Support for JavaScript in Custom Auth flows was recently rolled out to Cloud organizations, this includes btoa()

Please let us know if you have any feedback on it

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Custom API Authentication should allow the use of btoa()

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