---
title: "Cloud Only / No Details Mode"
slug: "cloud-only-no-details-mode"
updated: 2026-10-09T18:05:49Z
published: 2026-10-09T18:05:49Z
canonical: "help.quickbase.com/cloud-only-no-details-mode"
---

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# Cloud Only / No Details Mode

If desired, the Document Portal can be used without storing any "detail" records in Quickbase. We refer to this as "No Details" mode. You will still need to have a button on some table to launch the Document Portal, but that is the only setup needed. This can be used in cases where you truly only need to store files associated to a given record, and absolutely nothing else.

Additionally, this mode eliminates using Quickbase as a way to store files, like file attachment fields—since there is nowhere for us to store the attachment. As such, you must use a third-party cloud: Amazon S3, Dropbox, or Egnyte.

You also have fewer features inside the Document Portal itself—namely, you can't do any of the following:

- Define a Column List of fields to show
- Replace Files
- Edit Records
- Open related Quickbase Records

In No Details mode, the portal reflects this: the button bar has only **Refresh**, **Delete**, **Upload**, and **Download**—there is no **Grid Edit** button—and the grid shows only the two baseline columns, **File Name** and **File Size (KB)**. The context menu also omits **Replace Selected**, **Edit Record**, and **Open Record**.

## Set up No Details mode

In the installation wizard's [Document Portal Setup](https://help.quickbase.com/quickbase-extensions/docs/en/document-portal-setup) step, choose Amazon S3, Dropbox, or Egnyte in **Select a Cloud**, then choose **Store on Cloud Only**. The wizard adds the **Document Portal** and **Document Portal - Mobile** buttons and a **Document Portal Directory** field to your table, and no details table.

The button formula the wizard creates looks similar to the following. In No Details mode, *details* is set to *false* (*n* also works) and there are no *details…* parameters:

```
var Text url = "https://..."  // your Document Portal server URL, created by the installation wizard
& "request="
& Base64Encode(
"clientid=Q1234"
& "&appid=" & AppID()
& "&dbid=" & Dbid()
& "&cloud=s3"
& "&msid=" & [Record ID#]
& "&clouddirectoryfid=11"
& "&clouddirectory=" & [Document Portal Directory]
& "&cloudbasedirectory="
& "&details=false"
);

"<a class='Vibrant Success OpenAsPopup POSTTempToken' style=\"\" data-height=600 data-width=800 data-refresh=true data-tempTokenDBID='" & Dbid() & "' href=\"" & $url & "\" >Document Portal</a>"
```

Here, *cloud* is *s3* for Amazon S3, *db* for Dropbox, or *eg* for Egnyte. For what each parameter does, see [Document Portal formula URL parameters](https://help.quickbase.com/quickbase-extensions/docs/en/document-portal-formula-url-parameters).