The general technique I was describing was really one of auto creating task lists. Typically, my clients employees all have individual Quick Base userids, as there are many many apps they access. When you say the word "portal", I'm thinking that you are referring to employee access without individual Quick Base userids.
If you have an issue with a large number of employees who do not have userids and the list price of the seats makes the project unfeasible, recently Quick Base Sales is more open to discussing alternative pricing arrangements for low usage users and users restricted to say an individual app where they just are Viewers.
You would need to put in a support ticket to request someone form Sales contacts you.
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
Your Quick Base Coach
http://QuickBaseCoach.commarkshnier2@gmail.com
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