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MindaMay
Qrew Cadet
6 years ago

Button to Add Child Record, Save it, Display it, Reload, then Edit mode

I have a button that adds an Estimate to an Opportunity. The button Adds the child record, Saves it, and Displays it. An automation runs in the background that adds child records to the Estimate. Idea...
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
6 years ago
When Quick Base demo'ed Automations at Last year's EMPOWER, when they were very very new and before they changed Quick Base to only populate tabs when they come into focus,  they used that trick on the main stage so as not to have the untidiness of having to refresh the page.  They forced their demo app to have that new feature (populate embedded reports only when they come into focus) ahead of the rest of us.

So they demoed Automations, but sort of gave a sneak preview for delayed loading of embedded reports.