6.25.23
New
New form experience
Our new form experience is now available and ready for your mission critical use-cases. Builders now have a drag-and-drop what-you-see-is-what-you-get experience when designing forms that will take them from idea to solution faster than ever before. Builders also benefit from a new set of form rules that gives them more control over the end user experience. You can read more in our help center, and see the new experience in action in our on demand videos:
Click +New Form in any of your apps to get started building a new form.
Upgraded Mobile Dashboards
The days of toggling between multiple screens and struggling to find the information and reports you need on mobile are gone. Starting June 7, all customers now have access to our new Mobile Dashboards. This new capability merges crucial data and actions into a single unified interface on mobile. By consolidating key reports and data with actions and triggers for different workflows, you can now effortlessly access everything you need to be successful in your daily tasks from a single location without any additional taps. Mobile Dashboards provide access to all widget types, which you use on desktop.
Just like other Quickbase mobile features, your desktop dashboards are automatically available on mobile devices without any additional building required. Without any additional effort, you will be able to access on mobile every dashboard, which you use in your daily activities.
And to take complete advantage of the mobile experience, app admins can now set a specific dashboard or app home page as the default home page for a role on mobile.
For more information see Mobile dashboards, and the blog post, 5 tips for building an effective mobile dashboard.
Mixed Encoding Converter
Many customers have apps created before encoded defaulted to UTF-8. As a result, these apps can have unreliable, or mixed, encoding. Recently, we partnered with Data Collaborative to develop a Mixed Encoding Scanner to help customers identify these instances across an app. Now, customers can find an Encoding Converter, available in App Management, to automatically convert Windows-1252 data to UTF-8. The converter works on an entire app at once. Additionally, admins can reverse the process if needed. Converting to UTF-8 will automatically turn the UTF-8 app property to "on" and vice versa.
Enhancements
New application sleep time
We constantly strive to optimize the Quickbase platform for performance and scale. Previously, apps went to sleep if they were unused for 30 minutes. Now, apps will stay awake for 60 minutes. This allows hourly scheduled integrations to run more efficiently.
Gantt Chart plugin - Read only
Your team can now view the Gantt Chart when an admin has it locked for editing. This is easily accomplished when a viewer launches the Gantt and sees the toggle for Read only automatically selected for them. This means a Gantt user can be in read only mode and not change data. However, if they change a column width or add columns for viewing, then visit Gantt in a later session, those view settings will pick right back up where they left off.
Previewing file attachments in the Quickbase mobile app
Mobile users will now be able to preview directly in the mobile app file attachments from the following types:
Images
Videos
PDFs
All other file types cannot be previewed directly inside the mobile application. However, users can download and share all files, irrespective of their file type, from the share button in the top left side of the modal.
Enhancements to the new forms experience: build and manage form rules more efficient
On 06/29 builders will be able to quickly duplicate their work and make changes so that they can build form rule faster by using the following:
Copy form rule
Copy condition within the expression tree builder for a form rule
Copy action for a form rule
Additionally, builders will now be able to filter rules by the fields used within the condition or the actions.
Beta opportunities
FEATURE | DESCRIPTION | STATUS | HOW TO PARTICIPATE |
|---|---|---|---|
EXCHANGE V2 | A new, more powerful Exchange is here! We’re excited to announce that the beta version of our enhanced Exchange is available to all customers. Our vision for the Quickbase Exchange remains the same: It’s a destination to discover what’s possible and jumpstart your building with resources from Quickbase and the community. But we’re adding exciting functionality to help you go further, faster. For the first time ever, you’ll be able to find formulas in the Exchange. And there’s a lot more to come. During this beta program, you can:
| Public Beta |
What’s fixed in Quickbase
ISSUE | AREA AFFECTED | WHAT WAS BROKEN | WHAT WE FIXED |
|---|---|---|---|
QBE017966 | REST APIs | You could not add or update app variables without removing existing ones. | REST API App update - support adding/updating app variables without removing existing ones. |
| API | When constructing an XML or restful API call, the response body is empty and does not return the expected message. | Now functioning properly. |
| Mobile | When a new dashboard is assigned to Role Dashboard home page, the selection overrides Role Mobile home page. | Role Mobile home page selections are not overridden by Role Dashboard home page. |
| Forms 2.0 | Form rules did not run if a user did not have permission to edit the current record. | Form rules now run correctly for all users. |
| Forms 2.0 | URL and Formula UR buttons do not open in popups. | On 06/29 URL and Formula URL buttons on new forms will open correctly. |
| Forms 2.0 | Snapshot fields on new forms were appearing as editable when they were not able to be edited. | On 06/29 Snapshot fields on new forms will appear as read-only. |
| Forms 2.0 | Address fields on new forms were not populating the zip code when the selected address from the search had one. | On 06/29 Address fields on new forms will correctly populate the address selected from the search. |
| Reports - Builder 2.0 | Form elements are missing labels. | Labels now appear correctly. |
| Reports - Builder 2.0 | In formula section of report builder panel, the user can move outside modal with screen reader and also with just keyboard in 'insert a function' modal. | The user now must close the modal. |
| Reports - Builder 2.0 | Aria-label do not exist in the old Item Picker. | Aria-label now appears in the old Item Picker. |
| Reports - Builder 2.0 | The error banner is not read by screen reader. | The error banner is now read by screen reader. |
| Reports - Builder 2.0 | When the modal is closed, the focus does not return to trigger. | When the modal is closed, the focus does now return to trigger. |