June 2025 Cascading Permissions Qrew Meetup Recap
Hello Qrew!
Thank you all who were able to attend yesterday’s special hands-on training Qrew Meetup. Here’s what we discussed:
To follow along, we recommended everyone to download the "Empower 2025 – Learn Cascading Permissions" app from the App Exchange before the session.
- Lauren Molino, Director of Advanced Solutions Services, showed how cascading permissions in Quickbase let you control data access with precision by combining user roles, data relationships, and dynamic rules.
- She walked through building a scalable permission system—starting with a user table and current user formula field, then cascading permissions through related tables—to handle scenarios like restricting project visibility to employees who’ve signed an NDA for a company.
- Lauren shared a great tip: using a parameters table to link employees and companies makes it easy to manage complex, dynamic permissions without duplicating roles or filters.
- A helpful takeaway from the session: Always test your permissions with real user scenarios to ensure employees only see the projects and tasks they’re supposed to—this saves time, reduces errors, and boosts data security.
- Missed the meeting? Here’s the recording: https://quickbase.zoom.us/rec/share/aJG4TJFrKTuiPV0UwM04RVSIFr4wqPIIOLyO7Q60tDwwc2itVal9BlRwzKV-97Q.nQarFMe5whLtgSgi?startTime=1749657243000
As promised, I did a raffle for all attendees who stayed for at least 15 minutes of the meetup. Here are your Attendee raffle winners:
Congrats to Harrison Smith and Mike Freyder!!! I will be reaching out within the next week to send you your $50 dollar gift cards.
In July, we are going to have two Qrew Meetups. We will be doing a General Qrew Meetup on Wednesday July 9th and a Pipelines Qrew Meetup Wednesday the 23rd with two more Empower encore presentations featuring Nathan Call, Manager of Implementation Services, and Kevin Slider, Team Lead of Implementation Services. Details are available on the events page.
Thank you and have a great afternoon!