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Direct Links to the Governance Core Apps!
Hello Realm Admin Qrew! Fresh off the press, Josh Miller has provided us with direct links to download the Governance Core Apps from the Exchange! GCA Instructions Realm Insights Realm Logger Click on each of the links above to download and get started. If you run into any issues, be sure to post your questions here and we can help follow up. Looking for a Realm Admin Use Case!Anyone from the group would like to share their Realm admin use case that might be helpful to the group? Please raise your hand or contact me (Esther LaVielle) directly to let me know. What do you want us to talk about at our Realm Admin Qrew Meet Ups? Please share your ideas with the group! We are looking to expand on new topics that can help you with managing access to apps and data via roles and actions, and how to apply unique authentication solutions.4Views0likes0CommentsWomen's Qrew October Event: Panel Discussion
Good afternoon everyone! I hope anyone located in the southeast is staying safe and sound following the impact of Helene and Milton. I'm writing today to update the Qrew on our event for October: We are not hosting the Women's Qrew meetup that is planned for 10/17. Instead, we are in the process of planning an exciting panel discussion around Building Your Personal Brand with some prominent female Quickbase leaders, targeting the morning of 10/30. Instead of hosting an internal-only discussion like we have in previous years, the WLG is delighted to extend invitations to this free, virtual panel discussion to members of the Women's Qrew!! :) Stay tuned for more details and the panel invite once we confirm final details, but as always, please feel free to reach out to me directly at tluccio@quickbase.com if you have any questions.10Views1like0CommentsOctober App Builder Qrew Meet Up Recap
Hello App Builders Qrew! Thank you to all who were able to join us on Tuesday the 8 th for October’s Qrew Meet Up. Here’s a quick recap of what happened: Babi Panjikar from DWF Group showed how he captures project time and duration from various time zones as well track time for various tasks. Babi shared insights on how he has leveraged stakeholder strengths in the planning, building, and deployment process of over 50 applications in his career. Several folks raised their hands interested in how to replicate something similar. Babi has shared two instruction docs for the time zone tracking and timer tracking solution. Please see the attached pdf files or you can access it in the App Builders Group Discussion page. Missed the meeting? Here’s the recording and password: 4U0?.y17 Our next meeting will be on Tuesday November 12 th at 12pm EST. Robert Reisse from Blue Cross Minnesota will walk through his Termination App and how it’s helped HR manage their workforce. A new meeting invite for November’s Qrew Meet Up will be sent soon.4Views0likes0CommentsOctober Manufacturing Qrew Meet Up Recap
Hello Manufacturing Qrew! Thank you to all who were able to attend October’s Manufacturing Qrew Meeting on 10/2/24. Here’s a quick recap of what happened: 1. Shawn Renn and Rob Mersereau, Sr. Implementation Consultants – Services, joined to do a quick review of the three manufacturing APPs that we are calling Pro Apps in the exchange. 2. To ground everyone with the difference between Pro Apps and other Apps in the exchange, Rob briefly walked through the OSHA, Shop Floor, and Site Management app to showcase the detailed tables, reports, dashboards, test data, and potential areas for customization that customers could use. Shawn Renn also shared tips as well as his excitement for being able to help customer use QBL (Quickbase. Language) and ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) to help manage applications. A huge thank you to both for joining today! 3. To get familiar or refamiliarize with these Pro Apps, we recommend checking out thisPro App Series available in Quickbase University. 4. I also showed a quick video of what it takes to implement a Pro App. You can try download it on your own and take it for a spin. However, we recommend connecting with your account team to work with folks like Shawn and Rob to get started. Their team does a great job with the discovery and planning process to determine how you can successfully implement and customize the Pro Apps to your workflows. 5. We got feedback from customers that these apps are great for inspiration and to show the art of the possible with Quickbase, but there is still a need to be rooted in the question that starts every discovery which is “What is the problem you are looking to solve?” Loved hearing this from our customers. 6. Missed the meeting?Here’s the recording and password: cby3qh^v Our next Manufacturing Qrew Meet Up is on Wednesday November 6 th at 12 PM EST. Kory Hoppes, Staff Solutions Consultant, will be working with me to come up with a great manufacturing use case and how you can use Quickbase to solve it. More details to come soon! The invitation for November’s Meet Up will be sent out early next week.October Realm Admin Qrew Meet Up Recap
Thank you all who were able to attend yesterday’s Realm Admin Qrew Meet Up. Here’s a recap of what happened: 1. Josh Miller, Customer Solutions Manager – Governance, gave the group a long-awaited update to the Governance Core Apps. After 25 downloads with customers, he was able to create asweet suite of Governance Core Apps that will give every Realm Admin a front seat to manage their apps, users, usage, and more. 2. Customers were given a very brief overview of the topic of governance and showcase the updates that were made. He mentioned that it would take about one hour to download then prop up the first iteration of the app. 3. People loved seeing how Josh used code pages to create a guided experience when downloading and implementing the governance apps. 4. A couple of customers wanted to see Replication IDs added to the fields that can be pulled in for the ACC table. Thanks to Dwight Munson for adding it to the feedback tab. Make sure you log into Quickbase to access Product Feedback first before clicking this link to upvote this in the Feedback app. 5. Missed the meeting or want to rewatch all the magic?Here’s the Recording and password: X$39UiM? 6. Special Announcement from Josh Miller: The Governance Core Apps is expected to officially available in the Exchange on Thursday October 3 rd ! (Pending a few tiny image updates) On behalf of the Qrew, we want to give a huge thank you to Josh Miller and all the customers who downloaded, tested earlier versions, and gave feedback to get this app to its current state today! As Dwight Munson said during the meeting, “Love seeing the evolution of the app.” We whole-heartedly agree! Our next meeting is on Tuesday, November 5 th . I would love to feature anyone who’s downloaded the Governance Core Apps after it has been made available to share their experience with others. Any volunteers? Ping me and let me know. Thank you and have a great afternoon.5Views0likes0CommentsSeeking Insights on Quickbase in Construction
Hi everyone, I'm currently exploring using QuickBase within the construction industry and would love to hear from those who have experience with it. Specifically, I'm looking for insights on the following: Pros and Cons: What do you find are the major advantages and disadvantages of using Quickbase in construction projects? Functional Requirements: How well does Quickbase meet your specific functional needs? Are there any gaps or challenges you’ve encountered? Technical Complexities: What technical complexities or challenges have you faced while implementing and using Quickbase? Any tips on overcoming these hurdles would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance for your feedback and experiences. Your insights will be invaluable as I navigate this platform! Best, Prachi ThakkarOctober 23rd Portland Qrew Meetup 3PM
The Portland Qrew is meeting on the fourth Wednesday at 3PM PST at the Harder Mechanical Contractors offices in Portland, OR. The goal for this meetup is to collaborate and solve some problems. Afterwards with the weather being pleasant, it is possible we find ourselves drinking a pint. Anyone interested in attending via Teams, please email me directly at jharrison@harder.com and I will send a Teams invitation.September Portland Qrew Meetup Notes
September Portland Qrew meeting started at 3 PM PST on a beautiful fall day. Attendees were Lee Gilmore, Jonathan Miller, Jen Clarke, Jim Harrison. Elena Larabee and a couple last minute invites Jonathan thought would benefit from the experience (KennedyM (Wyoming/Montana), Ender (Denver Co)). In the end the last minute invites didn't make it but I wanted to make note of the invitation to track how this develops. After saying our hello's and introductions, then finding there were no collaboration problems to solve, we reviewed the past months progress. Starting with Lee explaining how he is working on last minute projects, trying to finish something for a customer, and so a little distracted. Having children who attend PPS we are well aware of in-service days where there is no school and Lee was attending remotely. Lee said he will be at next months meeting if all goes to plan. Jen talked about making preparations to building out a Mobile solution. Part of the month was spent comparing Quickbase versus FastField Forms on the iPad. It sounded like the conclusion is FastField is the path forward. Licenses are purchased and they started to learn the FastField UI. The project goal is to provide field representatives with the ability to enter work orders electronically. It's exciting to hear about the development of an electronic, wireless data entry and processing system custom built to the company's specifications. The amount of design that must go into what sounds like a simple project can be overwhelming. We are looking forward to hearing what Jen discovers and are standing by ready to assist and be awed at the design ingenuity. Elena talked about efforts with trying to move data between Domains. In this example, an iFrame in a QB Dashboard that opens an O365 scheduling tool ~ sort of what Tammie was working on previously. When a User clicks the scheduler, the Scheduler page is supposed to open. Instead there is an error because of a security feature in the browser to disable cross site scripting. Aside; for a while Website builders could steer Users away from one Website and to another Website. The method eventually was used to steer Users to nefarious Websites where data loss could happen. Browser builders put a stop to Cross Site Scripting and named it CORS and the Internet moved on. We talked about the inherent problems and shared the limited understanding we have of leveraging Oauth and other security methods to solve the problem. This problem is another of those "sounds easy" until you try it challenges most developers come across regularly. When Elena comes up with a working solution, we look forward to hearing how it was solved and taking notes. Elena also started on the path to discovering Jira www.atlassian.com a project management tool and is still in the early stages of determining how it's supposed to work. Next I shared my progress in the past month. My main focus has been updating stored procedures that use QuNect to sync data between different services in the environment. As is normal with managing data synchronization, there are always requests to add another field to the sync so some other process can be built out for some reason. My method when making these changes is to review field comments, and update notes as needed or where lacking. Over time it is much easier to manage complex systems if there are bread crumbs of knowledge. Also this month we had an amazing opportunity to bring together a large group of Users at Harder and talk about how they use the systems we have built. We called it the "PRIME Improvement Team" event. The event was 3 days of talking about PRIME (our custom Quickbase solution) and listening to our Users. The event was well received by all attendees with requests for more and a lot of new work for the development team based upon the conversation. Finally I shared my experience with the new Quickbase Support Website and gave a rundown on the plus deltas. We wound down the meeting talking about Forms, new style vs old style and form rules in general. Basically with old forms it was nice to have all the fields in a list to manipulate and a pita to manage form rules. We touched on the challenges to transitioning over to new forms. The difference in performance between the old and new forms (old forms are faster). Finally we discussed working and collaborating with development teams . When working with a team of developers there is an extra layer of responsibility amongst the team to ensure all are aware of standards and what everyone is doing. Having daily standups in an open blameless environment is critical to ensuring the team is comfortable working together. It is easy to go into your cave and only come out for food and bathroom breaks. Taking time on a daily basis to share with the team engenders creativity and collaboration. Finally Jonathan Miller, who is a new Quickbase employee and first time attendee, gave some plus deltas of the meeting. He volunteered to be the note taker (thank you) and wanted to invite more Quickbase builders to the meeting. It is impressive to see the level of professionalism Jonathan brings to the table and we are looking forward to working together moving forward. Below is my BMW 1979 R65 per a request from Jonathan. Looking East from the hills on the East side of Salem, OR.