Create solutions

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

Solutions are a collection of apps and pipelines in a realm that app admins use to make changes safely with tools like:

If you have connected apps and pipelines that work together in a workflow, use a solution to manage them so that all components always remain compatible and the workflow is never broken.

Create a solution

  1. Open the global navigation menu

  2. Select Solutions

  3. Select Create Solution

  4. Select Edit details to add a name and description

  5. Add apps, pipelines, and contributors

Contributors, realm admins, and account admins, can add and remove apps and pipelines, and edit the solution details, including:

Label

Definition

Name

Up to 250 characters

Alias

Must be unique in the realm and cannot contain spaces. Up to 1000 characters.

Description

Up to 4000 characters

Owner

The user who created the solution

ID

An automatically generated ID unique within Quickbase platform

Created Date

The date the solution was initially created

Last Modified Date

The date the solution was last modified

Only solution owners, realm admins, and account admins can add or remove contributors from a solution.

Add apps and pipelines to a solution

Adding app and pipelines to a solution does not immediately change how they behave. When you add them to a solution:

  • The app or pipeline continues to function as it does today

  • Existing users, roles, and permissions are not affected

  • No schema or data changes are applied

Changes to schema or data follow the application lifecycle workflow after you:

  • Create environments for the solution, or

  • Start using versioning and publishing

Until then, apps and pipelines remain unchanged in their current state.

Delete a solution

If you're the owner of the solution or a realm or account admin, you can delete a solution. To do so, select the delete icon next to the solution name:

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Type YES to confirm deleting the solution.

Note

Deleting a solution, or removing apps from a solution, does not affect your live apps. Only the solution, environments, and versions are deleted.

Permissions

Realm admins grant access to Solutions on the Permissions page of the Admin Console. By default, only realm and account admins are granted access, and have solutions admin privileges.

Once granted access, solution admins and solution owners have permission to:

  • Create solutions

  • Delete solutions

  • Create environments

  • Add and remove apps (must also be an app manager, app admin or super user)

  • Add and remove pipelines (must also be the pipeline owner or a realm admin)

  • Add and remove contributors

  • Create versions

  • Execute rollbacks

Solution contributors are added within a particular solution. Contributors have permission to:

  • Create environments

  • Add and remove apps (must also be an app manager, app admin or super user)

  • Add and remove pipelines (must also be the pipeline owner or a realm admin)

  • Create versions

  • Execute rollbacks

Solution action

Solution admin

Solution owner

Solution contributor

Create Solution

Yes

Yes

N/A

Delete Solution

Yes

Yes

No

Add App

Yes *

Yes *

Yes *

Remove App

Yes

Yes

Yes

Add Pipeline

Yes **

Yes **

Yes **

Remove Pipeline

Yes

Yes

Yes

Add Contributor

Yes

Yes

No

Remove Contributor

Yes

Yes

No

Create Versions

Yes

Yes

Yes

Execute Rollbacks

Yes

Yes

Yes

* Can only add apps where the user is assigned as an app manager, app admin or super user

** Can only add pipelines where the user is the pipeline owner, or any if the user is a realm admin