Introducing Pipelines - Webinar Q&A

• What happens to our automations in current systems?
• Will we need to rebuild and move automations into the pipelines?

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Jessica Adkins
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Do you plan to support pipelines to Zendesk?

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Rachel Rachel
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Does Pipelines support...

• Conditional steps. I.e. a condition is true, do this; if not, do that.
• Can functions be applied to data fields? That is, instead of inputting the current date/time into a data field, instead add 2 hours to current time and input that.

Thanks

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Jonathan Heuer
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By which security protocol are the calls transferred and is anything stored in pipelines servers? Will Pipelines be appropriate for transferring sensitive or PII data from one encrypted system to another?

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Rachel Rachel
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Can we write our own custom API calls within a pipeline? IE - integrations that aren't included by default within pipelines.

Can we trigger a pipeline with an API call? So we call a specific endpoint that corresponds to a pipeline and we provide data as input parameters that can be used within the pipeline?

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Austin Hayes
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Hi Evan,

Just finished the webinar and really excited for pipelines! Just curious what integration to O365 will look like and if this will replace the need for add ons like SendToQuickbase?

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Michael Santiago
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Is there a way to connect to an arbitrary REST API endpoint, such as one exposed by my company for use by our customers and integration partners?  This would be something that you would not have a connector for.

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Jim Speights
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Is there an HTTP connector(channel) ?

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Vince Admin
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Example pipeline with Dropbox?

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Brice Long
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Is the Q1 release an Early Access date or a Production release date?

Will there be a way to use pipelines without the visual UI (i.e. view/edit as a schema)?
Will Pipelines be accessible from the QuickBase API?
Will Pipelines be able to trigger API calls, or be triggered from other QuickBase non-table related triggers (i.e. App CRUD, Pages CRUD, users, user groups)?

Will there be conditional branching?

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Sam C
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How fast sould we expect new connectors be become available?

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Alex Morales
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Can pipelines be triggered via an API call?

Also, can custom 'Channels' be created (so that I can interface with custom webservices within my company)?

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Rhett Melton
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Congrats on an awesome set of new tools.
Thank you for the great products!

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Brian Seymour
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Pipelines works for sending and receiving data. How about file attachments?

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Gilbert Spigelman
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Very exciting!

I apologize if I missed this during the webinar, but is there a way to organize the pipelines (i.e. a folder system, tags, etc.)?

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Jenni Murray
Detroit, MI
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Very exciting information!  I have a few questions:
4. Can we generate tasks and sub tasks from templates using one single pipeline?

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John Harvey
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How will the modified timestamp fields for QB records produced/modified by this feature (i.e. Last Modified By, Record Owner, etc.) be handled when utilizing pipeline actions?  Will they always use the pipeline creator's username like how automations currently work, or will it be possible to define that value in the pipeline setup either through use of a user field or some hard-coded value (similar to how connected tables use "Connected Data Service" as the Record Owner).

With the potential of heavy record manipulation with pipelines, I'd prefer not to have my name plastered over all of our QB records when I am not actually making these record additions/edits myself.

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Jonathan Klein
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During the webinar, I was under the impression there will be a ODBC (e.g. MySQL) "Channel."

Is that the case?

If so, I am curious about bi-directional data flow and triggers between MySQL and Quick Base​. That would be a game changer!

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Brian Seymour
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Will there be a way to get "old" values, like you currently can in webhooks and automations? (for logging the old and new values when a field is updated, for example)

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Dan Ladner
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Although you've made it clear that Automations are not going away, is there a general sense that Pipelines will eventually replace Automations?  When Automations were introduced, it was clear that Actions would not be going away, but certainly Automations seemed to be taking the place of Actions.  I quickly transitioned my Actions into Automations, as Automations were more intuitive and powerful for what I was trying to do. I'm curious if the general sense (or hope) is that with the increased capability of Pipelines, and that you can recreate Automations but add additional capabilities, do you foresee most people moving from Automations to Pipelines to implement the trigger/action workflow?

The webinar was great! I've also had a chance to use Pipelines a bit in Early Access 🙌

I'm recreating a Webhook I have that sends notifications to a Slack channel.

I can duplicate just about everything except the use of field prefixes.

For example, I have a JSON webhook with the following:

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Sharon Faust (QuickBaseJunkie.com)
Founder, Quick Base Junkie
https://quickbasejunkie.com
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1. Will Pipelines enable adding a new record to Quickbase to create a corresponding new record in Quickbooks in real time and vice versa?
2. In the demonstration I only saw new records being created.  Does Pipelines have the ability to edit and delete records in Quickbase and corresponding systems?
3. I read in the thread that Automations "will be supported in the near future".  Does Pipelines replace Automations and, if so, will the automations we've created be ported to Pipelines automatically and without requiring changes?

Thank you.

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Mark Mark
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Are pipelines triggered by webhooks? 

Also, is it foreseeable that we'll be able to trigger a Pipeline from a Formula/URL button within Quickbase?  What comes to mind is a button fires off a Pipeline, and the user is shown a pop-up form (like a jQuery Dialog) with loading animation (and perhaps custom text).. when the Pipeline is finished, the pop-up displays a confirmation, and the user's page reloads.  

^This would allow us to migrate much of what we do with custom Javascript into native Quickbase, which is our end-goal.

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Rhett Melton
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Pipelines is super exciting and I think a game changer in making multiple tools into one to make management easier. 
I can't wait to get access to try this out and see all of the amazing things we can do. Jealous of all the members in here that are already on early access.

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Derek A Hutchinson
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Will there be a Snowflake channel available in Q1?  If not, is it on the roadmap?

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Paul Agnew
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