Dynamic Rules Question

This happens with some things in QuickBase. After you upload the file you need to interact with the form in some way, pick something from a dropdown or enter some text, and you will see the form rule suddenly trigger. This can be a little annoying. It's similar to how when you enter a date into a field nothing will trigger until you click outside the field.

Are there any other things on the form? You might be able to get away with placing the File Attachment on the form in a better spot so that the user uploads the file and has to take other actions after that before getting to your date field. Maybe they could categorize the upload in a dropdown, something. I know this isn't the best solution but it might work.

Hi George,

As Austin mentioned one trick with that is things like Form Rules and Formulas don't start to  assess changes to a field until a user clicks out of them. One trick I have seen a user put in place is they made sure a field that needed to be included appeared below it so the user would click away. They also went one step further and included a formula that displayed on that form itself to let a user know what required things were missing on a record and gave instructions that updated as the user went through the steps that included telling them to click into a specific field to get their form rules to update if they were cascading like you mentioned.

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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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