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Scroll and Load Forms / Embedded Report Ajax

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hhersch
Qrew Captain
6 years ago
You may have recently heard, either from one of our Quick Base Solution Providers or on the Community, about Scroll and Load Forms (aka Embedded Report Ajax).
The feature effectively makes it so embedded reports do not load with the form. They load when the report comes into focus (i.e., scrolling or if it is nested in a tab).

 This feature will have the most value in one or more of the following scenarios: 

  1. The embedded reports are not shown immediately when forms load (they aren't visible at the top).
  2. The performance profiler shows that the embedded reports are contributing to load time.
  3. The embedded reports, even if loading quickly, are not often used. I.e., if you have a Customers form with an embedded report of Activities that isn't viewed often by users, putting that in a tab called "Activities".
We have been piloting this feature with some partners and would like to gather more feedback from users. If you are interested in having this feature turned on for your realm or a specific application as part of Early Access, please have your account/realm admin open a support case and our Care team will escalate the request to have it enabled.

Currently, the feature is limited to table and summary reports.

If this pilot goes well, we will evaluate turning this on platform-wide. Note that there is an override an app admin can use to turn this behavior off at the form level if needed, in extenuating circumstances.

Please feel free to post any questions or comments here.
Published 6 years ago
Version 1.0

19 Comments

  • Nice enhancement suggestion - basically the Report Link field on the form would have a form property drop down similar to the Form level drop down override as to how it should load.  ie it would follow the form setting or have it's own override.
  • Ok. It's not the most important idea but I suppose it's good to have it on there. 
  • Hi Harrison, I know it's been 5 months since this conversation had been discontinued, but is this Embedded Report Ajax feature still available? I have some child records embedded in a Parent Form that I'd like to see update when the parent record is saved, but currently unless I manually refresh the page (allowing the webhook to complete the processing in the background), the child records are not updated.... 
  • Scroll and load forms are on the road map for general availability. Until then. They are available on request in early access. I have enabled that for some of my clients and for my own work in my own developers account and in my mind they are working perfectly.

    You can just put in a support ticket and request early access for typeahead drop down and they gather up all the requests and do them once a week. I suggest you get to them before Christmas!
  • Hi Mark, I have already requested Support yesterday but I have been told that it is not going to fix the issue I stated above. Initially I was told it is available but then a different response. Is there anyway I could get some further help on this would you have any suggestions for me? I am happy to provide you with the two ticket numbers that were closed off as well.
  • I suggest asking for the Scroll and load to be implemented for your Realm. 

    Then put the child table in a tab on the form that is not the main tab. Then by the time the user clicks the tab to see the children table, the automaton or Action will have completed.
  • Thank you so much for your quick response Mark! Will follow your instructions and let you know how I go!
  • Hi Mark, just wanted to let you know all went successfully!!! Thank yo so much again!! Its a great feature if your need extra second or two to complete automations/webhooks that are working in the background before the users see the refreshed data.