Archive for June, 2009
by Kirk Trachy under Inside QuickBase, QuickBase Advice & Tips, QuickBase News
If you thought QuickBase was a powerful database before you are really going to be impressed with the addition of formulas, summary and lookup fields to our forms.
This isn’t just hiding or showing fields or sections on a form. This is controlling your form with formulas, changes to lookup, summary and reference fields.
This opens up many new possibilities for forms:
Say you have projects and you have a field called [Project Type]. You use that to describe whether it is a Marketing, Sales or Support type of project. Every time you add a task you need a different set of fields to show based on the project type. Before you would have to create a long task form with all the unneeded fields showing. With form rules now sensitive to lookup fields your project type can now control what your task form looks like. It’s fast, easy and simple.
How about a better way to keep on top of your project’s issues? Say you want to see your issues when they are open but want them to go away when closed. Using a Summary field you can now have them pop up when opened and disappear when closed.
Here’s another one, let’s say we are working on a task and it is overdue. How about using form rules to pops up an alert screen, switches the priority to high and require a note be entered? You can do that too.
We also enhanced our QuickBase alert functionality. You will notice them in applications and on your My QuickBase page.
“I cannot express how excited we are for the dynamic form rules. First conditional drop downs and now this! Christmas was early this year! Thanks QB Team!”
-Melissa
“This is incredible!!! I am so happy to be able to have more power over my form rules! This will save all those creative workarounds I was used to dreaming up! …Conditional Drop Downs & Form Rules!!!! Thank you QuickBase!!!”
-Hunter
“Thanks for listening and making it happen. Keep the enhancements coming!!”
-D.J.
Check out the video to see how you can use this new feature and review the release notes http://quickbase.intuit.com/resources/node/2004 for a complete item listing.
If you have any questions be sure to let us know or pop into any of our 10 free weekly webinars at http://quickbase.intuit.com/webinars/.
Have a blast!
by Philip Gross under Industry Trends
Bill Lucchini (our general manager) posted on the Intuit Partner Platform blog about 10 great things that he heard at the ‘Startups and the Cloud’ event we hosted last week.
At the end of the event (or at least the part before the cocktails) I gave a closing where I recapped ten great things I heard. Several people came up to me afterward to request that I publish the list… so, here it is…(in the order I heard them during the day):
- Vishy Venugopalan from Longworth Ventures set a great baseline for the day with this overview of cloud computing.
- Scott Cook shared some great stories about the early days of Intuit from failed ads and trouble meeting payroll to the breakthrough insights that helped Quicken take off…
by rmcdonald under QuickBase News
Although, we post a release announcement at least a week in advance so you can plan for the downtime, we continue to test our releases right up to the end. As can sometimes occur, we found a serious issue late in the process.
After numerous discussions, we made the difficult decision to postpone the release to ensure that the problem is appropriately fixed and tested before we release.
We are continuing to assess the issue and I will post an update to this blog as early as possible next week. Thank you for your understanding and I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Robert McDonald
QuickBase Product Manager
by emccann under Uncategorized
To everyone who voted for QuickBase in the 2009 Webware Awards, thank you for your vote! QuickBase was named one of Web 2.0’s best business productivity solutions!
In May, Webware announced its annual list of Webware 100 award winners. QuickBase was on the list and recognized as one of the top offerings in the web productivity category.
Click the image to see the full Webware 100 list
The 2009 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications on the Web today. After receiving more than 6,000 nominations for inclusion in the Webware 100, the editors selected 300 finalists. But the Web’s users made the final cut, voting more than 600,000 times to select their favorite 100 products. QuickBase was one of just 10 products to get the award in the productivity category.
Rafe Needleman, editor at Webware and CNET commented that “This annual listing has become such an essential resource for people who want to learn more about Web 2.0 and the many ways it can help them stay connected. The Web 2.0 community and our editors ultimately selected the very best sites, services and applications that have made a lasting impression.”
by rmcdonald under QuickBase News
We are rolling out another update to QuickBase.
Here’s a quick look at some of the new features that will be coming out with the June product release.
Formulas in form rules…huh?
Dynamic form rules are used by application designers to make forms behave differently based on specific conditions. They set the condition and tell QuickBase what action (or actions) to perform. Until now, derived fields such as formulas and lookup fields were not available for use in form rules. With this release, that limitation is now gone.
From one of our development partners during the beta test:
“The new formula rule mods are amazing!!!! What a huge difference this will make for creating more user friendly forms.”
I certainly hope you’ll feel the same way.
Not to alarm you, but…
We’ve improved the Alert system that lives on your MyQuickBase page. QuickBase now visually alerts you when you get a new alert, distinguishes between high and low priority alerts and whether or not you’ve read them. The alerts management UI also now lets you delete alerts in bulk.
In addition, we have added a new alert to warn application managers if one of your application tables is approaching it’s size limit.
Notice to night owls
If you are QuickBasing, a new term I just made up, at 4:30AM Pacific on Sunday, please use the downtime required to launch these new features to contemplate how you will take advantage of the new form rules functionality. We have scheduled the upgrade window from 4:30 to 4:50AM. Long enough to make an egg sandwich.
Enjoy!
