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Old Home Page Retirement

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SamJones3
Quickbase Staff
7 years ago
Hi Quick Base Community,
If you've seen our March Release Notes, you may have noted this item:
To improve the customer experience, we will be retiring our old home pagesÑhome pages created prior to the 2013 launch of the drag-and-drop home page builderÑin the coming months. As a first step, we will no longer support copying of old dashboards as part of the March release, on March 25, 2018.
Our intention is to fully deprecate and remove the code supporting our old home pages in September, 2018. As we modernize our product, we will be removing older pieces of code allow our development teams to move more quickly and deliver features more responsively. 

With this release, we'll be removing the ability to copy the old home pages. We're monitoring the usage of these old home pages and will be reaching out proactively to account administrators whose users rely on old home pages to use Quick Base.

As I mentioned with the release of our new calendars, converting from an old home page to  a new one can be incredibly quick. Personally, I'm very interested in understanding any reasons or functional gaps you as a builder may not have switched over to using our newer home pages. 

If you need assistance switching from an old home page to a new one, please don't hesitate to reach out to Customer Support or your Customer Success Manager.

Sam Jones
QuickBase Product Manager
Published 7 years ago
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  • QuickBaseCoachD's avatar
    QuickBaseCoachD
    Qrew Captain
    7 years ago
    I have some apps on Old Home Pages which have tons of links on the dashboard.  Maybe 75 links plus another dashboard page linked off the first one for another set of links.  Because of the large number of links, the old style dashboard is actually better than the New Dashboards for this purpose as the links are more compact and each link looks like a small button which is easier to visually
    discern.

    The links are in the form of an HTML table.  Here is how the links start and there is much more similar code which follows.  My question is - is there any way to migrate that code to the New dashboards so I do not have to to laboriously recreate all those links.  I have tried pasting the code into various types of page such as a text element on the New Home pages and also into Rich text Pages and Code Pages, but all those just seem to reveal the code and not actual act as HTML.

    <TABLE border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">    <tr><td><b>Specials Lists and Stock Finder</b></td>  <td>  <input onclick="parent.location='binu8dfef?a=q&qid=7'" type="button" value="Specials List ALL " />&nbsp;&nbsp;  <input onclick="parent.location='binu8dfef?a=q&qid=5'" type="button" value="Specials List West " />&nbsp;&nbsp;  <input onclick="parent.location='binu8dfef?a=q&qid=6'" type="button" value="Specials List East " />&nbsp;&nbsp;  <br>  <input onclick="parent.location='bhke7mvnu?a=q&qid=77'" type="button" value="Search Specials ALL" />&nbsp;&nbsp;  <input onclick="parent.location='bhke7mvnu?a=q&qid=78'" type="button" value="Search Specials East" />&nbsp;&nbsp;  <input onclick="parent.location='bhke7mvnu?a=q&qid=79'" type="button" value="Search Specials West" />&nbsp;&nbsp;  <input onclick="parent.location='bd6kyiwtz?a=ShowPage&pageid=28'" type="button" value="Stock Finder" />  </td>  </tr> ..... and it just continues for many more table rows.  eventually ending with  </td></tr>    </TABLE>
  • _anomDiebolt_'s avatar
    _anomDiebolt_
    Qrew Elite
    7 years ago
    I could paste your markup unchanged into a Rich Text Page (in HTML entry mode) and the links redirected properly.
  • UrsulaLl's avatar
    UrsulaLl
    Qrew Assistant Captain
    7 years ago
    Thanks Dan, that is what I was afraid of. Moreover, it breaks the link when adding a rich text page link within a dashboard, so I am back on square one. I will have to do some more playing around with the code to see if I can come up with a decent solution.