Limitations of QuickBase - Things that Cannot Be Done Natively
I am a relatively new QB user and have invested a lot of time in learning this platform. Generally it is quite good. But during the course of establishing my app, I came across a lot of issues and in some cases a few bugs that I thought I might as well share with the community. Most of the time we are asked to log a request in User voice where your suggestion is always at the mercy of others as to how the issue is perceived and it takes ages to get a resolution. But I believe that there are certain missing features which should receive QB focus as generic product development.
I have listed below what I believe are an issue. But feel free to correct me if I got it wrong and there may indeed be a solution. Feel free to add your issues too so that QB might have a consolidated view. I would like to acknowledge Mark Shnier for teaching me a few things. Without his periodic help I could have unwittingly added things which should not be there.
No app documentation tool available apart from relationship diagram which is hard to read.
Record of alerts sent is not available or cannot keep a record of what was sent out?
There is no general option for formatting of a field in the form header such as Project Name
No option to pull a list of provisioned users
No option to filter a field with date logging
Last field in a section can be over stretched unless you add a blank test field next to it.
It is not possible to create a relationship with user field to a table - has to be a text
No other currency symbol could be added other than what is a default setting.
No option to customised welcome email message or the ability to attach a 'how to' document for new users
Formatting of objects titles in dashboard is not available and these do not keep track of the changes made to names of reports or charts
Complex and long list of rules for form when handling multiple roles
Connected table cannot receive imported data.
Navigation button not changing the label when page or report name changes
"Ask the user" option in reports results in some undesirable display for a second when report is run
Changing user field to List -User field is not possible
Chart colours are duplicated
Newly introduced tabs needs to have colours determined by user which is laborious. Should be a generic colour scheme provided.
Unable to save as spreadsheet reports with a grouping included unless that field is repeated in the report itself
Summary reports showing total column is meaningless if I am averaging. Cannot get rid of this column.
Lack of signature option app wide to appear in each alert or notification established than having to add each time
Limitation of 5 filters in reports
Report cannot be sorted unless provided full access to create a report.
User field custom user set is not dynamic or cannot be linked to a group.
Cannot configure the quick add option in the dashboard to link to a different form.
Unable to extract export of user names in plain English unless another text field is created.
Unable to log a date field.
No activity logs available for auditing
Why do all role get default access to a newly created table created. I end up going through each role to make the table invisible
Search button takes to the wrong form if exact match of the search syntax is made.
Sorting Reports Under "Override role settings by report" not possible.
Dates picked from a table of dates show strange data or numbers in records with blank field Bugs:# QBE005518
Hiding Add New Record button in a Table unless restricting the role
Address Field: Unable to make any part of the address field compulsory so that a user may be required to fill in a state without fail.
Filtering on Numerical Values..Numeric fields are not an option for dynamic filters.
No option to control change of record notification when changes made by Admin
Dashboard Printing.. BUG: QBE011270: "Print this Page" option on dashboard not always populating print screen on Chrome. This might have been fixed.
Updating CSV file in a linked table and setting an alert..
Reports cannot be emailed directly to users if they are not part of the domain.
There is no way to re assign a folder to a CSV link table.
Report Group Re Organisation. When moving reports to other groups towards right, it does not quite work as looks like it assumes that I am creating a new report group. bug ID # is 9208.
Dashboard precedence from roles is a pain as this could be different for different users.
Webhook support is not provided
User Field in QuickBase Connect..When syncing a connected table, all user fields come over as text fields.
No option to see report creation or modified date.
No option to capture deleted by in a notification if a record was deleted.
No option to have a file attachment field to select multiple files without having to create new fields or new linked documents table
The back up copy would not carry over the sync or connected tables; those would need to be set up again for the connection to work.
Rolled up start and finish dates cannot be shown against a group in timeline reports.
Cannot delete or reactivate a user once created
In reports and charts, there is no option to sort the list of reports or dates created or modified. I waste a lot of time in finding the correct report if I not use the search option. Same comment for 'Set how different roles use these forms and Override role setting by report under Forms setting. A similar issue with all alerts and notifications which can be sorted by do not hold the sort and no date of creation.
I have listed below what I believe are an issue. But feel free to correct me if I got it wrong and there may indeed be a solution. Feel free to add your issues too so that QB might have a consolidated view. I would like to acknowledge Mark Shnier for teaching me a few things. Without his periodic help I could have unwittingly added things which should not be there.
No app documentation tool available apart from relationship diagram which is hard to read.
Record of alerts sent is not available or cannot keep a record of what was sent out?
There is no general option for formatting of a field in the form header such as Project Name
No option to pull a list of provisioned users
No option to filter a field with date logging
Last field in a section can be over stretched unless you add a blank test field next to it.
It is not possible to create a relationship with user field to a table - has to be a text
No other currency symbol could be added other than what is a default setting.
No option to customised welcome email message or the ability to attach a 'how to' document for new users
Formatting of objects titles in dashboard is not available and these do not keep track of the changes made to names of reports or charts
Complex and long list of rules for form when handling multiple roles
Connected table cannot receive imported data.
Navigation button not changing the label when page or report name changes
"Ask the user" option in reports results in some undesirable display for a second when report is run
Changing user field to List -User field is not possible
Chart colours are duplicated
Newly introduced tabs needs to have colours determined by user which is laborious. Should be a generic colour scheme provided.
Unable to save as spreadsheet reports with a grouping included unless that field is repeated in the report itself
Summary reports showing total column is meaningless if I am averaging. Cannot get rid of this column.
Lack of signature option app wide to appear in each alert or notification established than having to add each time
Limitation of 5 filters in reports
Report cannot be sorted unless provided full access to create a report.
User field custom user set is not dynamic or cannot be linked to a group.
Cannot configure the quick add option in the dashboard to link to a different form.
Unable to extract export of user names in plain English unless another text field is created.
Unable to log a date field.
No activity logs available for auditing
Why do all role get default access to a newly created table created. I end up going through each role to make the table invisible
Search button takes to the wrong form if exact match of the search syntax is made.
Sorting Reports Under "Override role settings by report" not possible.
Dates picked from a table of dates show strange data or numbers in records with blank field Bugs:# QBE005518
Hiding Add New Record button in a Table unless restricting the role
Address Field: Unable to make any part of the address field compulsory so that a user may be required to fill in a state without fail.
Filtering on Numerical Values..Numeric fields are not an option for dynamic filters.
No option to control change of record notification when changes made by Admin
Dashboard Printing.. BUG: QBE011270: "Print this Page" option on dashboard not always populating print screen on Chrome. This might have been fixed.
Updating CSV file in a linked table and setting an alert..
Reports cannot be emailed directly to users if they are not part of the domain.
There is no way to re assign a folder to a CSV link table.
Report Group Re Organisation. When moving reports to other groups towards right, it does not quite work as looks like it assumes that I am creating a new report group. bug ID # is 9208.
Dashboard precedence from roles is a pain as this could be different for different users.
Webhook support is not provided
User Field in QuickBase Connect..When syncing a connected table, all user fields come over as text fields.
No option to see report creation or modified date.
No option to capture deleted by in a notification if a record was deleted.
No option to have a file attachment field to select multiple files without having to create new fields or new linked documents table
The back up copy would not carry over the sync or connected tables; those would need to be set up again for the connection to work.
Rolled up start and finish dates cannot be shown against a group in timeline reports.
Cannot delete or reactivate a user once created
In reports and charts, there is no option to sort the list of reports or dates created or modified. I waste a lot of time in finding the correct report if I not use the search option. Same comment for 'Set how different roles use these forms and Override role setting by report under Forms setting. A similar issue with all alerts and notifications which can be sorted by do not hold the sort and no date of creation.
