QuickBase Release Notes: October 2, 2011

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Our Knowledge Base covers a wide variety of technical topics, from the basic to the complex.

In our October release, we have added several features to QuickBase. See the sections below for further information.

What's New in QuickBase?
What's Fixed in QuickBase?

Do you have an idea for improving QuickBase? You can share your suggestions by either clicking the orange feedback tab on the My QuickBase page, or visiting the Customer Feedback for Intuit QuickBase forum (http://quickbase.uservoice.com).

What's New in QuickBase?

The October release introduces these new features:

File Attachment Management
Partners & Add-ons Menu Option

You also can read about these features in the online help after the release.

File Attachment Management

The Manage File Attachments page is used to manage all of an application’s file attachments. Using this page, you can view the file size of each attachment, open individual files, and delete multiple attachments at once to stay within your service plan’s space limits.

Note: You need the proper permissions in the application to view and delete file attachments. Please check with your application administrator if you find that you cannot access or delete file attachments.

You can access the Manage File Attachments page in one of two ways:

From the Customize menu, choose Applications. On the Misc. tab, choose Manage File Attachments.

OR
From the Help menu, choose Application Site Map. Click Manage File Attachments under the Miscellaneous heading.

Partners & Add-ons Menu Option

The new Partners & Add-ons menu option is now available from within any QuickBase application. This option takes you directly to our Partners page, where you can search for QuickBase partners with the business and technical skills to help with QuickBase application development or integration with other systems.

What’s Fixed in QuickBase?

We’re continuing to focus on quality and have fixed a number of bugs in this release. (As always, all QuickBase releases include bug fixes from previous releases.)

Form Rules Issues

See the table below for fixed issues involving form rules:

Issue	Description
QBE004110	When creating a form rule based on a lookup of a multiple-choice field, the UI did not give you the set of valid choices from which to select. This issue has been resolved.
QBE004216	When using multiple-choice fields to create form rules, choices that contained apostrophes or double quotes could not be selected. This issue has been resolved.
QBE004223, QBE004781	In Chrome, the last rule in a list of form rules could not be selected. This issue has been resolved.
QBE004806	When creating a form rule using conditional drop-downs and a blank condition or action, the blank values were shown as «blank» on the rule. This issue has been resolved.
QBE005336	Clicking on a form rule when the field in that rule had been converted from Date/Time to Date set "the current date/time" value in the Action to <<blank>>. This issue has been resolved.

Chrome Issues

See the table below for fixed issues that affected QuickBase in the Chrome browser:

Issue	Description
QBE005349	When customizing tables, switching from a table’s Properties, Relationships, Reports, or Emails tab to the Fields tab displayed the fields from the first table in the list on the left instead of those from the currently selected table. This issue has been resolved.
QBE005448	Columns overlapped when scrolling horizontally in a report. This issue has been resolved.
QBE005476, QBE004770	The record picker window did not always show the scroll bar used to scroll through records. This issue has been resolved.
QBE005499	Tooltips in the Application Site Map were formatted incorrectly. This issue has been resolved.

Other Issues

See the table below for other issues fixed for this release:

Issue	Description
QBE001409	In applications with many fields and relationships, choosing the <Other Column> option could cause slow response times. This issue has been resolved.
QBE002312	An Exact Form with two or more consecutive spaces in its name prevented the display of the list of Exact Forms in Word. This issue has been resolved.
QBE003263	Attempting to open some Exact Forms for editing in Word 2007+ caused an error. This issue has been resolved.
QBE004064	Opening the downloaded Exact Form template in Word caused a security warning due to an expired certificate. This issue has been resolved.
QBE005275	Using the <Other Column> option while building a report on the "child" side of a cross-app relationship caused the list of fields and related tables to be blank. This issue has been resolved.
QBE005485	When using Test as <Role> to test a role assigned to a target group, testing a different role cleared the target group from your original roles. This issue has been resolved.
QBE005492	Editing a record with cross-app relationships while testing a role could cause the user to be removed from their original role. This issue has been resolved.
QBE005498	The email notification sent for alerts contained a link that did not work for realms other than www.quickbase.com. This issue has been resolved.

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Comments

Partners & add-ons

Submitted by keith (not verified) on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 23:17.

thanks for this link, it would be nice to have it also appear in the the Help menu available on the My QuickBase page.

user voice is our single point for customer feedback

Submitted by sshearin on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 14:17.

Hi Keith --

Thanks for writing in. I agree, that does sound like a good place for the link as well. Since we're funnelling all user suggestions through UserVoice to make sure nothing gets lost, please enter this request by either clicking the orange feedback tab on the My QuickBase page, or visiting the Customer Feedback for Intuit QuickBase forum (http://quickbase.uservoice.com).

Regards,

--S.

telephone # field

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 13:58.

what is the correct format for 10 digit phone #s

also when using account #s it will not take symbols

re: telephone # field

Submitted by sshearin on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 15:09.

Ten-digit phone numbers can be entered as plain numbers (18005553333), or just with dashes (1-800-555-3333). Either form will display as 1 (800) 555-3333 on forms and reports. Phone numbers can also be entered directly with parentheses and dashes as shown.

The account numbers you refer to probably have a field type of Numeric, which will only accept the numbers 0-9. If that is the case, then symbols are not allowed. You will need a field of type Text to include symbols.

Regards,

--Sybil

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