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Need help deciding between two db setups
I am pretty new to qb and am currently trying to create an app to help my department track a student's requested thesis committee. The (hopeful) process: student will submit form with their identifying info, proposed thesis title, then choose their requested thesis supervisor, and selected reader, both fields pull from the same list of faculty (though if someone is chosen in one field they will not appear in list in 2nd field - that's for another time to figure out). So in trying to build something I came up with two different setups and am wondering which people think would be best. Which do you think will be better longterm. Attached are screenshots of both relationship diagrams. Hopefully they are decipherable.
Printing to Dymo Label Printer
Hello all, I just wanted to share how I was able to successfully set up a print button to print using a Dymo label. I have been searching online for a solution and I was being pointed to Trinity and that just wasn't an option with my organization. So below is the steps I took to get what I needed. Step 1 Create a Formula Rich Text field with the address information. Below is the formula I used to get it my address in one field. Everywhere you see brackets, those are my field names. I have Name, Organization, Street Address, Street Address-2, City, State/Region and Postal Code. You will need to change those names in my formula to fit your field names. Also, we have some [Organization] that are very long so we I had to add some adjustments to the font if the character length got to a certain size. My formula is attached in the word document labelled "Step 1 Formula". Step 2 Create a form on that table that specifically displays only the formula rich text field you created above. My field is named Address Label. The only thing you need to put on that form is the Address Label field you created in Step 1. Remember to hide your label on the form to remove the name of the field. The picture attached labeled "Step 2" shows what my form looks like. It won't be much since its only one field with a hidden label. Step 3 Make note of the Form Id number for your new form. Mine is '10'. Step 4 Create a formula URL field on your table to execute the print. My field is labeled "Print". I also made it a button for a cleaner look. The formula I used for my button is attached labeled "Step 4 formula and field settings" Replace Realm Name, TableID, [Record ID#] and IDofTheForm with your information. Realm Name Located in your URL browser. Mine is dekalbcountyga https://dekalbcountyga.quickbase.com/ TableID Located in your URL on the table you are wanting to access just before the /table. In this example, mine is kdubsk9v kdubsk9v/table [Record ID#] This is the key field in your table. The default for every table is [Record ID#], however, if you changed the name of your key field like I did, you will need to put that field name there. IDofTheForm Located in your main Form page. Previously I showed mine was 10 Change the settings in that field to display a button, open in a new window, etc. Image attached labeled "Step 4" is a screenshot of all my settings in this fieldOnce you have that done, the only thing you need to do is in the print settings, after you select your Dymo printer, you will need to change your margins to None. I am in now way a Quickbase pro but I will help anyway I can. Hopefully you all find this useful. :)
Find and append new unique values to secondary table
I have an app where I run a daily upload of data (much of it duplicate due to the nature of the source), but sometimes my daily upload includes a new record that needs to be added to a secondary table within the app. The key field in the secondary table matches one of the fields in my daily upload. I have set up a QB action that should identify new unique values in the field related to the secondary table's key and copy these records. But I am running into a problem. Sometimes my upload will include several rows with the same value in the field that I want to use to populate the secondary table's key field . When this happens, my action is registering an error. I only need the value in one of the duplicate lines to write to the secondary table, but I need to preserve all of the lines in the primary table. Any suggestions?
Script a button to print current record to DYMO
I'm finally moving a product pricing process from EXCEL into QB. The last step is giving a user(s) the ability to print product labels from QB to a local DYMO printer. What I had envisioned was a button on the record form that would take a half dozen or so values in the record and push them as values for the label. Has anyone here done this already? If so, are you willing to share any of your scripting? My JavaScript experience is extremely limited. This link is an example of printing to a DYMO via a JavaScript library, but I don't really understand how to set the values of QB fields as the values to send to the printer. http://developers.dymo.com/2010/06/02/dymo-label-framework-javascript-library-samples-print-a-label/ Any help would be greatly appreciated.Color Code Fields
I have looked everywhere and tried everything I can find but no luck. I want to background color a field if the values are the same. For instance, if a field for "Job 2345" has the number 523 in the ID field and "Job 1234" has the same 523 number in the ID field, color the background so they're identifiable. And hopefully grouped together so all jobs with field ID 523 can have the same crew assigned. Thoughts?Using pipelines to log the date/time including the seconds of a record change
I have a pipeline that logs when a record was changed in a tracker table. I need the date/time of the change to be accurate to the second. I can't have a pipeline copy the Date Modified of the source record to a Date/Time field in the status change record as we would lose the seconds. I can't use the Date Created of the record created by the pipeline as this and the user's action are offset by a second or two. I need this to be when the user made the change, not when the pipeline created the record. I created a Formula - Date/Time field in the source table that is ToUnixTime([Date Modified]), then the pipeline copies that to a Number field in the status change record. This works, however I'm in search of a more elegant solution than creating a formula field in every table that needs this. Is there a Jinja expression that will give me the ToUnixTime() of Date Modified without having to create a formula field?
Text Field with Current Year
Hello, I'm trying to create a text field called "Reporting Year" where users can only enter numerical values for a year (i.e., 2023). Also, I need the field to be auto-populated with the current year (i.e., 2025); if the users wants to change this, they can do so. I haven't been able to completely figure this out on my own, so I appreciate any help on this. Thanks in advance!Creating a pie chart in a grandparent table
I’m in PR and we use QB for managing our media requests. If a reporter reaches out with an inquiry we log it in a media requests table. Media requests has a parent table of reporters (reporters can have multiple requests). Each reporter has a media outlet (think CNN or ABC News) parent (a media outlet can have many reporters. One of the things we track is the coverage of the media requests generates and score it with a multiple choice field on the media request entry (positive, negative, or neutral). So I have a pie chart that show the breakdown of the coverage with those options. I can pull that report into the reporter table on place it on the reporter form and it filters it down showing the score for that reporter across all their requests. What I want to do is pull that data into media outlets so I can see the score for that media outlet across all their reporters and the reporters requests. I want a similar pie chart on the media outlet form. What’s the best way to go about this?
