Old Home Page Retirement

Sam,
As a QSP developer, I have lots of questions about the sunsetting of the old Dashboards.

Is there a communications plan to customers who have old dashboards telling them specifically they have old dashboards and in which apps which have been recently used. Many Customers don't understand old vs new dashboards and they may have legacy apps that are in use which have old dashboards.  So they won't react to a generic email unless they have a button to push to tell them where they have a problem in their Realm. 

As a developer supporting hundreds of apps, I have no idea where the old dashboards are and if they are in use.  So at a minimum I would want a button to check a Realm for problems.

If I miss converting a dashboard after the sunset, will I still be able to see what it was configured like?  ie my client calls up and says "my dashboard is broken".  So I know I need to make a New Dashboard but will I still be able to get at what the old dashboard was setup like after the sunset?  ie, how do I know what the old dashboard did after the sunset.

I agree with the concerns expressed above, and have another to add.  What of Quick Base applications that have been "retired" or "archived"?  These applications may need to be kept for historical / legal / contractual records purposes and may need to be referenced at some point in the future, but are not being actively maintained or updated.  I have some apps in this situation which ONLY have the old home pages.  What will happen to these applications when the old home pages are retired?  What will display on the dashboard if/when the application is opened?

Agree with previous posted concerns.  I have no idea which of my apps are using the "old" home pages as referenced in this rather alarming announcement.

Sam Jones is a great guy and would not want to arrive at EMPOWER without an answer for us. :) 

I'm sure that there will be a plan for how we will all get from here to there.  We are just helping him here to marshal internal resources for us.

Hi All,
We're in the process of gathering usage data on Old Home Pages which are actively being used. We'll be sharing this data with QSPs and Quick Base Customer Success Managers, Support Reps, and Sales Reps, so they can help you out.  We should have more info about all of this before Empower, if not sooner.

Sam Jones
QuickBase Product Manager
 

As a developer, I am super amped to change all the old dashboards to the new ones. However, in the process of switching them over I came across a...issue. The mac daddy of all dashboards, that runs all of our tracking, does not work in the new dashboard. It is a dashboard that literally only has one widget, a text editor, that hass HTML/javascript thrown onto it. When I put the code in the new dashboard text editor, I got...code. It no longer recognizes HTML vernacular. So I put it in a rich text page, and then threw the url into a link widged on the new Dashboard. But now the Quickbase native CSS classes no longer work (Vibrant, Success, Alert, etc.), because it is a rich text page within a Quickbase coded page. Everything is being overridden. So now I am going to have to create a new CSS page, which connects to the rich text page, to link onto the new dashboard. A very convoluted solution to something that worked perfectly well before. 
Of course, this is a very small issue, luckily with a solution, but it is annoying as all heck, and I hope I don't have to play with this again in a few months when QB comes out with some fancy new UI changes. 

MS>As a developer supporting hundreds of apps, I have no idea where the old dashboards are and if they are in use.  So at a minimum I would want a button to check a Realm for problems.

I don't have any applications with the old style pages. If someone permits me (dandiebolt@yahoo.com) an application with an old style page I can write a script that will scan an entire account and locates. The script is simple but I need to know what to look for and I don't have any applications with the old style pages.

Thx Dan for the offer.  It is not just locating them but knowing if anyone is using them.  I think that Quick Base will need to put in a counter to know which are in use. 

Well if you can find them with script you can put a counter in them with script. And the same script that finds them and convert them. It just takes a few minutes - no need to wait for HQ to prioritize and implement your counter suggestion.

Hey Ana,
If you put it in a code page, and call the Quick Base CSS at the beginning, you should be able to pick up our styling. Any of our QSPs can probably help out too.

Sam Jones
QuickBase Product Manager