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title: "What are Quickbase actions?"
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# What are Quickbase actions?

If you're an app admin, you can use Quickbase actions to automatically **add records** or **edit related records** in a Quickbase table when data is added, modified, or deleted. No coding required – just choose when, what, and where from options in a dropdown list.

For example, you might want to create a Quickbase action that automatically **adds a record** to the Customers table when the status of an *Opportunity* changes from *Open* to *Won*. Or if you are tracking Projects and Tasks, and the priority of a *Project* changes to *High*, you might want Quickbase to automatically **edit related records** by setting the priority of related *Tasks* to *High* as well.

You can do this using pre-defined Quickbase actions. [learn how to use Quickbase actions](/v1/docs/what-are-quickbase-actions).

## What's the difference between Quickbase actions and webhooks?

Quickbase actions are pre-configured actions that either add a record or edit a related record. They are triggered when data changes in a Quickbase app and perform an action in another Quickbase table in your realm.

Webhooks can call any Quickbase API or third-party API. You might create a webhook to kick off a Workato workflow or create a Slack notification. To [configure a webhook](/v1/docs/configure-a-webhook), you need some knowledge of API calls.

### About webhooks and actions in an app using a sandbox

When you use [a sandbox with an app](/v1/docs/using-quickbase-sandbox), changes to webhooks and actions are not supported; they won't be tracked as changes in a sandbox and can't be published as changes to the live app.