Table size can significantly affect QuickBase performance, including the speed with which QuickBase searches tables and runs reports.   We recommend that you schedule regular reviews of your applications to see how much storage space each table is using and whether you can tweak your tables to optimize performance.

If you have a QuickBase Enterprise account, you can take advantage of the Developer Sandbox feature. The Developer Sandbox provides you with a safe environment in which to try out your changes, without affecting users or data in your live application.

There are a variety of situations where text that is pasted into QuickBase from Microsoft Word can have unexpected consequences. Here are a few known issues:

QuickBase returns this error when you ask it to process an overly large or complex operation. There are a few ways to avoid running into this problem:

If you have one or more very large tables, you might consider archiving records you no longer need. You can easily archive using QuickBase's Import from Table feature. Please read: https://www.quickbase.com/help/import_from_table.html

The security message is displayed by your browser when QuickBase attempts to display an image not hosted by QuickBase. To prevent the security message from popping up, you'll have to store the image file within QuickBase.

To do this:
1. From My QuickBase, click "Create Application." Select the Document Library.

2. Click "Add document," and add your image file as a file attachment.

If an Application Manager or Billing Account Administrator is departing, but still available, he or she can easily transfer ownership to someone else:

For instructions on transferring an application, please read:
https://www.quickbase.com/help/transferring_a_database.html

For instructions on changing a Billing Account Administrator please read:

Multiple user accounts belonging to one individual create confusion from time to time. For example, say you created an account using your Gmail address and someone has invited you to join their application using your corporate e-mail address. Once you sign on to QuickBase using both, you have two separate user accounts.

Some probable causes are:
- an application manager has typed the wrong e-mail address
- the user registered with a different e-mail address
- the user has multiple QuickBase user accounts
- the user is assigned the wrong role

To resolve this problem, first check for the following issues:

Is the user's e-mail address correct?

It's easy to share your application with a user or even a group of users. Please read https://www.quickbase.com/help/sharing_a_database.html.

To learn more about user management please read: https://www.quickbase.com/help/adding_a_user.html.

If you find yourself in a situation where you constantly have to add new fields to a table in order to keep up with future dates there is a much easier way to manage this. You may have imported your data from excel and each column represented a different day in your spreadsheet, as a result you have countless numbers of check box or text fields for all past and future dates in QuickBase.