Is Quickbase usable for non-US businesses ?
Dear QB community, I am evaluating Quickbase for a french speaking organization. I understand that Quickbase only have english menus, does only supports dollards as currency sign and US date form...
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I mean the comments I am about to make in the most helpful way - to improve the product and the value users derive from using it. However, I wish QuickBase would stop implemented hard-coded features such as (1) only supporting particular date formats or (2) only supporting a limited (and outdated) set of HTML tags in text fields, (3) making it difficult to use JavaScript on pages, (4) lack of Unicode and locale support, (5) lack of branding, theming & customization etc.
I think the project managers / business analysts at QuickBase have the wrong mindset and keep trying to push isolated, single purpose hardcoded product features decided upon in meetings using the pareto principle (80/20 rule). Users want greater ability to to configure the product without hitting arbitrary limitations and this requires the ability to add small but essential fragments of html, css and JavaScript. They want more integration hooks. This "no code" meme is a myth - during the course of any successful project some unique requirement always rears it head and it requires customization and some level of "coding" to solve. Additionally, QuickBase can't add hardcoded features to the product fast enough to keep up with diversity of user's requirements or to avail themselves to the endless cornucopia of features added to the browsers.
Remind me to schedule a vision quest with Rick Willett to convey these ideas.
I think the project managers / business analysts at QuickBase have the wrong mindset and keep trying to push isolated, single purpose hardcoded product features decided upon in meetings using the pareto principle (80/20 rule). Users want greater ability to to configure the product without hitting arbitrary limitations and this requires the ability to add small but essential fragments of html, css and JavaScript. They want more integration hooks. This "no code" meme is a myth - during the course of any successful project some unique requirement always rears it head and it requires customization and some level of "coding" to solve. Additionally, QuickBase can't add hardcoded features to the product fast enough to keep up with diversity of user's requirements or to avail themselves to the endless cornucopia of features added to the browsers.
Remind me to schedule a vision quest with Rick Willett to convey these ideas.