What is the New QuickBase?

Our upcoming QuickBase release is different from our other releases. We've worked hard to give QuickBase a new, streamlined UI - and that means lots of changes for you, our customers.

We’re excited about bringing you increasingly easy to use features, functionality, and simplified product navigation. Our goal is to make the QuickBase UI so seamless that you will forget to thank us. 

QuickBase users may notice small discrepancies when rounding and comparing floating point numbers. For example, Round(37.785,0.01) returns 37.78 instead of 37.79. This is not a QuickBase-specific issue; the discrepancies happen because some floating point numbers cannot be represented exactly in the binary format required by computers and are instead approximated. 

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Use a field of type "Formula - URL (Link)". Set the cover text to "Click Here.." and then use a formula to point to a view that selects for only one record based on the Record ID# field which is unique for every record.

The URL for a view using the API is for example:

1. In the HEAD section of your Web page, add the following <script> block:

<script lang="javascript" src="https://www.quickbase.com/db/dddddddd?a=API_GetRecordAsHTML&rid=n&jht=1">
</script>

where dddddddd is the database ID and n is the record ID for the record that you want to embed.

In December 2008, Intuit QuickBase introduced a new security enhancement, application tokens. This error means that your application requires tokens and that an API call to your application does not contain a token assigned to your application.

Read more at https://www.quickbase.com/help/app_tokens.html

By default the QuickBase API returns information in XML format.

But API_GetRecordAsHTML and API_GenResultsTable return HTML tables. API_GenResultsTable can also return records as CSV (comma separated values) and as (TSV) tab separated values.

It depends on where you are searching from.

When you perform a search from the My QuickBase page, you are searching the Name, Description, and Manager fields of all applications. The search results list all of the applications to which you have access that fit the search criteria.

No anyone who programs in an environment that supports HTTP POSTs and GETs can make use of the QuickBase API. This includes but is not limited to C, C++, Python programmers as well as Cold Fusion developers.