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RussellHanson
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3 years ago
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How to View Page as Admin without it Being Home Page

Brand spanking new to QB. I am an admin, but I can't seem to figure out how to view pages in non settings/edit mode so I can test the functionality of things. In the Settings mode, the functionality (...
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  • MarkShnier__You's avatar
    MarkShnier__You
    3 years ago
    There are a few ways to see Home Pages.

    1. One way to view pages is to make links on your Application Home Page to link to other home pages.

    2. or you can go to the URL of your app and edit the URL like this

    https://mycompany.quickbase.com/db/bgf7xxx?a=showpage&ID=6

    where 6 is the number of your page

    3. or you can go to the list of pages and at the right there is an icon to preview the page.

    4. or you can take notes of which Roles are set to which Home Pages and then do a "Test as Role".


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MarkShnier__You
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For #4, "Test as Role", if you click  your name at the top right, you should see an option for Test as Role and Test as User.​

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RussellHanson
Qrew Trainee
3 years ago
The link doesn't work. Test as Role does, but takes me to whatever the Page is for that Role. I don't have anybody currently in that Role I am building for right now, which is pretty much my root issue here. Like I said, Preview works but I I don't like the pop up, I want a normal view while I test. 

What about creating a Test User and assigning to a new Role and then linking to the Page? Then I could just go in and change the Page as I work on the different Dashboards? I can make the URL button as well, I haven't done that yet. At least I know how to do it to test my stuff, just want the best and fastest way as i am going to be creating a lot of these.

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  • MarkShnier__You's avatar
    MarkShnier__You
    Qrew Champion
    3 years ago
    If you plan to do a whole bunch of work building different homepages (note that technically now a Home Page is different from a dashboard,  A Dashboard is the New Dashboards that are just being rolled out now) ... anyways you can make a Role for yourself and drag that Role higher than the other roles, and assign your role to use whatever dashboard you are building at the time.  Then you will always be on the Home Page you are working on.

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    • RussellHanson's avatar
      RussellHanson
      Qrew Trainee
      3 years ago
      That makes sense. I do have a bunch of different Home Pages as well as Dashboards to build. One last question, is it possible to change a Home Page to a Dashboard or vice versa later on?

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      • MarkShnier__You's avatar
        MarkShnier__You
        Qrew Champion
        3 years ago
        No, there will not be a way to do that.  The New Dashboards are built on completely new and different tools set / technologies and as far as I know there is no migration utility planned as they have much higher priorities to work on for the New Dashboards.​

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