Hi Jonathan, that's a great question! When records are produced/modified in Quick Base by Pipelines, the built-in fields will not be available to modify. That means that the "Date Created" and "Date Modified" fields will automatically reflect the Date/Time that the Pipeline ran. The "Record Owner" and "Last Modified By" fields will also be assigned based on the user token, meaning that your name will be reflected in the scenario you described.
That said, you can certainly leverage any editable user field, and you can even use that to capture the value from the "Last Modified By" field in your trigger. That would allow you to capture the name of the user who actually took the action that caused the Pipeline to run.
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Adam Hoover
Product Marketing Manager
Quick Base
Cambridge MA
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-05-2020 16:12
From: Jonathan Klein
Subject: Introducing Pipelines - Webinar Q&A
How will the modified timestamp fields for QB records produced/modified by this feature (i.e. Last Modified By, Record Owner, etc.) be handled when utilizing pipeline actions? Will they always use the pipeline creator's username like how automations currently work, or will it be possible to define that value in the pipeline setup either through use of a user field or some hard-coded value (similar to how connected tables use "Connected Data Service" as the Record Owner).
With the potential of heavy record manipulation with pipelines, I'd prefer not to have my name plastered over all of our QB records when I am not actually making these record additions/edits myself.
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Jonathan Klein
Original Message:
Sent: 02-05-2020 07:50
From: Evan Martinez
Subject: Introducing Pipelines - Webinar Q&A
Many organizations are finding that the need for innovative processes and automated work is continuously growing while even the most flexible tools are no longer fast enough when they don't work together. At the same time businesses are struggling more than ever to find resources to help them develop the custom integrations and automations they're missing.
With our brand-new Pipelines technology, Quick Base is introducing capabilities that empower builders of all backgrounds to automate work across integrated systems.
Thank you for joining us for the Intro the Pipelines Webinar. This thread is dedicated to all those questions we didn't get a chance to cover. Post your questions here and our Pipelines team will do the best to answer your questions. We want to know what you are curious about and cannot wait to bring Pipelines to you.
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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