Getting Handsontable to work with QuickBase
I just downloaded the trials for Handsontable to determine the use vs. cost within our QB apps. Does anyone have experience getting it installed that they would be willing to help me with? I am fami...
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I have been away last week and just getting back to accumulated emails and followups.. I have used Handsontable with QuickBase and it works extremely well if you need some of its features.
Feel free to contact me off-world using the information in my profile if you need specific assistance using Handontable with QuickBase:
https://getsatisfaction.com/people/dandiebolt
As an alternative, you might be able to use a Chrome Extension to manipulate (sort, filter, copy data etc) QuickBase's table reports:
https://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+extension+table+sort
These extensions inspect the raw HTML structure of tables and provide various ways to manipulate them. Since these extensions work on any web page containing tables there may be some aspects you cannot fully control. One feature they could not provide any functionality for is manipulation of reports that span several pages as they only work on the current page and have no knowledge of how QuickBase has structured their reports.
Feel free to contact me off-world using the information in my profile if you need specific assistance using Handontable with QuickBase:
https://getsatisfaction.com/people/dandiebolt
As an alternative, you might be able to use a Chrome Extension to manipulate (sort, filter, copy data etc) QuickBase's table reports:
https://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+extension+table+sort
These extensions inspect the raw HTML structure of tables and provide various ways to manipulate them. Since these extensions work on any web page containing tables there may be some aspects you cannot fully control. One feature they could not provide any functionality for is manipulation of reports that span several pages as they only work on the current page and have no knowledge of how QuickBase has structured their reports.
I am just getting back into QuickBase mode and I had an great idea. There is no reason you could not create a custom field that stored a blob of CSV data in a multi-line text field and viewed & edited it using Handsontable. You could even arrange for cell formulas to evaluate when values where changed - it is just that all your data would be stored within the mult-iline text field as a miniature blob of CSV data.
I think I will create such a demo and bring it with me to Empower 2017. I will probably have a dozen new demos for Empower so you should attend. I spent the last week binge watching Boston Legal and reading TvTropes to prepare for the conference so it should be a lot of fun.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BostonLegal
I think I will create such a demo and bring it with me to Empower 2017. I will probably have a dozen new demos for Empower so you should attend. I spent the last week binge watching Boston Legal and reading TvTropes to prepare for the conference so it should be a lot of fun.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BostonLegal