I have lots of applications, but one that may be of general interest to others might be the one we use for encouraging front line employees to make suggestions for improving processes, reducing errors, or reducing cost.

Employee make specific suggestions (ADD Record) – large or small – we want them all.

The Suggestions “live” as being open until they are either implemented, or turned down, if we find that they are not practical. They are awarded Points – 3 points for a valid Suggestion for Improvement, and 7 additional points when the idea is implemented. The points are slotted into quarterly buckets.

For the most part, the rewards are non monetary – trophy’s and peer recognition, and things like “the best parking spot”, or maybe movie coupons.

The QuickBase application makes it a breeze for everyone to make suggestions, be automatically notified whenever it is updated, for managers and supervisors to see what outstanding ideas are out there that need a nudge to get “closed out”, to track the points quarterly and annually (to declare winners for recognition purposes).

In terms of technical features, it makes use of Summary Table views to sort up the points, email notifications to let those involved in a Suggestion know that it has been updated, Monthly notifications to advise which ideas are sitting out there that look to be getting stale – i.e. they have been sitting unmodified for too long. It demonstrates really really basic HTML on the Overview screen to add a record ( A realy big “Click Here to make a suggestion”) – so that participants don’t have to hunt around for how to make a suggesiton. It also uses a technique to extract the date that a field was changed (by parsing the “Append only” text”), to get at the date so it can be slotted into a Quarterly bucket for points tracking purposes.

If that sounds like it might be interesting to other QuickBase Users, I would be happy to demo it.

Mark Shnier

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I have lots of applications, but one that may be of general interest to others might be the one we use for encouraging front line employees to make suggestions for improving processes, reducing errors, or reducing cost.

Employee make specific suggestions (ADD Record) – large or small – we want them all.

The Suggestions “live” as being open until they are either implemented, or turned down, if we find that they are not practical. They are awarded Points – 3 points for a valid Suggestion for Improvement, and 7 additional points when the idea is implemented. The points are slotted into quarterly buckets.

For the most part, the rewards are non monetary – trophy’s and peer recognition, and things like “the best parking spot”, or maybe movie coupons.

The QuickBase application makes it a breeze for everyone to make suggestions, be automatically notified whenever it is updated, for managers and supervisors to see what outstanding ideas are out there that need a nudge to get “closed out”, to track the points quarterly and annually (to declare winners for recognition purposes).

In terms of technical features, it makes use of Summary Table views to sort up the points, email notifications to let those involved in a Suggestion know that it has been updated, Monthly notifications to advise which ideas are sitting out there that look to be getting stale – i.e. they have been sitting unmodified for too long. It demonstrates really really basic HTML on the Overview screen to add a record ( A realy big “Click Here to make a suggestion”) – so that participants don’t have to hunt around for how to make a suggesiton. It also uses a technique to extract the date that a field was changed (by parsing the “Append only” text”), to get at the date so it can be slotted into a Quarterly bucket for points tracking purposes.

If that sounds like it might be interesting to other QuickBase Users, I would be happy to demo it.

Mark Shnier

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Topics I’d like to be covered in Webinars:

-Clarification on relationships, lookup fields, reference fields, etc.

-Exact forms: printing multiple records on 1 page, in a nice format.

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Topics I’d like to be covered in Webinars:

-Clarification on relationships, lookup fields, reference fields, etc.

-Exact forms: printing multiple records on 1 page, in a nice format.

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I have been a user of Quickbase for 3 years now and I think it is magnific application to increase collaboration, visibility and productivity, and at the same time, reduce IT costs.

Yesterday, I got to know Salesforce.com initiave called APPEXCHANGE ( https://www.salesforce.com/appexchange ). As you maybe aware, Salesforce.com is developping a Bussiness Application Exchange, running on their ASP platform, where independent application developpers would be able to deploy and offer their own business applications. Salesforce.com facilitates the selling of their applications (best called “services” instead of “applications”) for a monthly fee.

I had always thought where was the next application I would deploy within my organization. I was sure someone else had something already developped in QB which could be helful for my company….Salesforce has already thought about it and apparently, with an initial high participation of Independent Software Vendors. It seems you are somehow moving as well with the seminars. Are you planning to go in the same direction? What about an application exchange within QB users and maybe Developpers?.

Happy New Year. Kind Regards

Ramón

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I have been a user of Quickbase for 3 years now and I think it is magnific application to increase collaboration, visibility and productivity, and at the same time, reduce IT costs.

Yesterday, I got to know Salesforce.com initiave called APPEXCHANGE ( https://www.salesforce.com/appexchange ). As you maybe aware, Salesforce.com is developping a Bussiness Application Exchange, running on their ASP platform, where independent application developpers would be able to deploy and offer their own business applications. Salesforce.com facilitates the selling of their applications (best called “services” instead of “applications”) for a monthly fee.

I had always thought where was the next application I would deploy within my organization. I was sure someone else had something already developped in QB which could be helful for my company….Salesforce has already thought about it and apparently, with an initial high participation of Independent Software Vendors. It seems you are somehow moving as well with the seminars. Are you planning to go in the same direction? What about an application exchange within QB users and maybe Developpers?.

Happy New Year. Kind Regards

Ramón

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This is great. The voluntter one and budget ones are very important to me.
Do we need to visit here for dates?

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This is great. The voluntter one and budget ones are very important to me.
Do we need to visit here for dates?

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James, I was DEFINITELY going to write you directly on the volunteer date (you’ve been very patiently waiting), but yes, we’ll post here and likely on the My QuickBase news page. Other ideas of where folks would like to find announcements would be good.

Right now, I think we are just about set to schedule the volunteer one for the 31st of January, but I’m having a meeting on Friday to confirm that.

Thanks for all of the ideas… I’ll give you an update as we look for and learn more.

Thanks,
Jana

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James, I was DEFINITELY going to write you directly on the volunteer date (you’ve been very patiently waiting), but yes, we’ll post here and likely on the My QuickBase news page. Other ideas of where folks would like to find announcements would be good.

Right now, I think we are just about set to schedule the volunteer one for the 31st of January, but I’m having a meeting on Friday to confirm that.

Thanks for all of the ideas… I’ll give you an update as we look for and learn more.

Thanks,
Jana

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Hi people…

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Hi people…

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