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 Kirk Trachy under Inside QuickBase, QuickBase News

Whilst most of us were still in bed sleeping this Saturday, our QuickBase engineering team was up early readying for a new QuickBase feature release. This release sports three main features, numerous improvements and many enhancements.

If you have ever filled out a form and selected a make and model of a car you will get an idea of what one of these features is. We call them “Conditional or Cascading” drop down boxes. Whatever you select first effects and determines your second choice. It has many applications and is one feature that has been a top request of users and developers.

Also released is a new “Home” tab that is replacing the “Reports” tab on your “My QuickBase” page. We’ve changed it to reflect greater functionality. In short we have increased the number of function panels, enabled a versitile text/html editior for video, scripts and whatever other html gadget you can think up.

One more thing. If you’re an Account Administrator, you will be pleased to know you can now delete unverified users within your domain.

Give it a go, kick the tires and let us know what you think.