Quickbase makes it easy to reduce repetitive tasks and orchestrate workflows, uniting disconnected data onto one platform. With Pipelines, business users can manage both automations and integrations in one place. And we have been hard at work enhancing our Pipelines capability based on your feedback. Now, as we continue to look toward the future, we must also evaluate the role of older and less flexible features like Quickbase Actions. Quickbase Actions will reach End of Support on August 31, 2025, and it will no longer be possible to create new actions at that point.
What this change means for you
After August 31, 2025, Quickbase Actions will no longer be supported. And at that time, you will no longer be able to create new actions.
However, existing actions you’ve created will continue to run. And you will be able to enable, disable, and edit those actions as needed.
We previously communicated a plan to disable the editing of automations and actions, and to begin the retirement of Application Webhooks. Based on your feedback, we are not planning to make those changes at this time.
We still do strongly recommend that you migrate any remaining actions, webhooks, and automations you’re using to pipelines instead, which enable more powerful and flexible workflows.
If you are an app builder, you already have access to create pipelines. If you do not see the Pipelines link below, please contact your account administrator to get access.
The Pipelines Advantage
We have been continuously adding new capabilities and tools that make it easy for you to transition your workflow automations to our newer and more powerful Pipelines technology. Not only will this ensure that you don’t experience any disruption to your business or your processes, but it also opens the door to new workflow ideas that can connect across multiple systems.
- Pipelines supports all features available within QB Actions and Automations – Pipelines supports all the features you’ve been leveraging within QB Actions and Automations, including the ability to query the previous value of a field.
- Pipelines enables more sophisticated logic than Quickbase Actions and Automations – Pipelines supports more powerful business logic than QB Actions and Automations – including branching and looping, as well as parsing text.
- Pipelines gives you the ability to scale workflow across systems – In addition to orchestrating workflow within your Quickbase ecosystem, Pipelines includes drag-and-drop integration with over 40 products including Outlook, Slack, and Sharepoint.
Recent Pipelines Improvements
We are making major improvements to Pipelines, which make it easier to build, enable more powerful pipelines, and make them easier to govern and manage.
Easier to build:
- Describe your workflow using natural language, and our Smart Builder will build the pipeline for you using AI
- Improved Pipelines Designer offers a streamlined, drag-and-drop experience
- Simplified setup for Quickbase channel no longer requires user tokens to be created manually
More powerful and reliable pipelines:
- New integration channels for FastField, Snowflake, and OpenAI
- Improved Outlook channel enables replying to email thread
- Improved Quickbase channel enables exporting records to CSV
- New HTTP channel makes it easier to integrate with other systems via API
- Pipelines trigger up to 30x faster (5x faster on average)
Improved governance & collaboration:
- Service Accounts enable easy collaboration for pipeline building
- Added pipelines to Field Usage
- Pipelines can be backed up easily via Solutions
- Connection Central now includes both Pipelines and connected tables
- Connection Central Pipelines tab expand with much more detail like, name and owner of the pipeline, direct link to the pipeline, pipeline status and last triggered date, summary of all successful and failed runs of the last 24 hours resources details (fields, tables, and apps the pipeline accesses), channels and tags used, YAML export, and Static IP Addresses for Outgoing Pipelines
Focus areas for improving Pipelines
We’ve gotten feedback from many of you on Pipelines about what’s going well and where we have opportunity to improve. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us. Getting this perspective is essential to help us evolve our product and make sure we are serving the community well. Looking forward, we are exploring a number of Pipelines enhancements:
- New bulk trigger step
- Improved troubleshooting and error handling
- More no-code connectors
We plan to keep existing actions, webhooks, and automations running for the foreseeable future. If this changes, we will provide a minimum of 3 months’ notice first.
Learn more
- Take the Getting Started with Pipelines course in Quickbase University.
- Learn more about building pipelines with AI by watching our session from Empower 2024.
- Take the Pipelines Builder certification exam.
- Explore the 40+ no-code connectors available for Pipelines.
- Learn more about Quickbase’s process for retiring product features.
