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Sandbox will no longer receive new features or technical support after June 2026. Instead, explore Solutions—our updated approach to application lifecycle management. Learn more

Access to this feature can change based on your Quickbase plan. Learn more about feature availability and plans in Quickbase capabilities.

You can use Quickbase Sandbox to collaborate, plan, build, test, and release Quickbase apps. You can also use sandboxes to let others make changes to apps without accessing sensitive data. Read more in our community Q tip. 

Create a sandbox

To create a new sandbox in Quickbase:

  1. From the My Apps page, open an app that has sandbox enabled. The Live button displays at the top left of the page. Select Live.
     My Apps page showing the Live button at the top left of the app

  2. Select + New sandbox.

    Sandbox dropdown menu with the + New sandbox option

  3. Enter the name of the new sandbox and select whether you want to copy any records into the sandbox.
    Note: The Sandbox includes all table-to-table relationships.
     Create sandbox dialog with name field and copy records options

  4. Select Create to have Quickbase automatically open the new sandbox app. The new sandbox name displays with a lightning bolt indicating that you are now editing the app in the sandbox instead of making changes to the live app.
     App name with a lightning bolt icon indicating the app is in sandbox mode

You can now safely make and test changes to the sandbox version of the app without affecting the live app.

Review and publish changes from a sandbox

Before publishing the changes you made in a sandbox to the live app, you can review them.

Review changes

Select Review & publish to display a list of changes that were made to the app in the Sandbox.

Review and publish page showing a list of schema changes made in the sandbox

The list displays any schema (app structure) changes you made to a Quickbase Sandbox. Based on your review of the changes made to the app, you can perform any of the following tasks:

  • Publish changes to the live app

  • Revert all changes made in the Sandbox

  • Delete the sandbox

  • Close the review and continue to make changes

  • Export the list of sandbox changes to a spreadsheet

Note: You must either accept or reject all of the changes you made in Sandbox. You cannot selectively publish change items.

Publish changes to the live app

Select Publish changes at the top right of the page. A publish confirmation dialog displays where you perform the following tasks:

  • Select Publish to confirm your changes and publish to the live app while retaining the sandbox. Based on the amount of schema changes, a spinning indicator may display as the system publishes the changes to the live app. You are automatically redirected to your live app when your changes are published successfully.

  • Select Publish & delete sandbox to publish your changes to the live app and automatically delete the sandbox. You are automatically redirected to your live app when your changes are published successfully.

  • Select Cancel to return to the sandbox and make additional changes.

Revert all changes made in the sandbox

Select Revert all changes at the top right of the page. A confirmation dialog displays where you can either:

  1. Select Revert all changes to delete any unpublished changes that were made to the app in the Sandbox without publishing them to live app. The schema returns to the same schema as the live app. Based on the amount of schema changes, a spinning indicator may display as the system reverts the changes.
    Note: You cannot undo this action.

  2. Select Cancel to return to the Review and publish page.

Delete the sandbox

  1. Select Delete sandbox at the top of the page. A confirmation dialog displays where you can either:

  2. Select Delete to delete the sandbox, including all of its unpublished changes. Based on the amount of schema changes, a spinning indicator may display as the system deletes the sandbox.
    Note: You cannot undo this action.

Select Cancel to return to the Review and publish page.

Close the sandbox review

To close the review and continue to make changes in the sandbox, select Close & keep working at the top left of the page. You return to the App home page in the sandbox.

Export sandbox changes to a spreadsheet

To export the list of sandbox changes to a spreadsheet, select Export CSV at the top right of the page. A spreadsheet opens containing the changes you made to the app.

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