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DrewVoge
8 years agoQrew Cadet
This is a good list, and there are a number of pain points here that many of us share.
Overall, what I would like to see Quickbase do is combine this community support portal and the uservoice page into a SINGLE UNIFIED COMMUNITY PORTAL. It would be awesome if the same feed that showed questions showed new suggestions in the uservoice. Or if people could choose to tag a forum discussion(s) to a uservoice suggestion. I would think it would help quickbase as well when they are looking at user suggestions to see the conversations people have had related to solving those problems in the first place. Put it all into one 'community voice' platform.
On your list, I would question one thing, before speaking about it generally:
'It is not possible to create a relationship with user field to a table - has to be a text'
Unless I'm not understanding what you mean here, you can do this - I do it all the time. One of the most powerful tools I use in my apps is a custom 'users' table where the primary key is a user key. In other tables, I create a formula-user field called 'User-Current' with a simple value of user(). I then create a relationship between the 'users' table and those other tables based on that 'User-Current' value (among others). It's an extremely useful way of customizing reports, having people cover for other people that are sick, etc etc.
'Changing user field to List -User field is not possible'
There are ALL KINDS of weird things that happen with user fields and list-user fields. Creating report filters can be a nightmare sometimes. The simple filter of :
"USER-LIST field - contains - Value from USER field" should be simply understood by quickbase, but it often isn't. I often have to duplicate a single user field into a formula List-User field just so i can use it properly in a report filter. Very annoying, especially as it's so simple to implement in a formula.
Relationships based on user fields and list-user fields provide so many real-world solutions to questions i see all the time in this forum.
Overall, what I would like to see Quickbase do is combine this community support portal and the uservoice page into a SINGLE UNIFIED COMMUNITY PORTAL. It would be awesome if the same feed that showed questions showed new suggestions in the uservoice. Or if people could choose to tag a forum discussion(s) to a uservoice suggestion. I would think it would help quickbase as well when they are looking at user suggestions to see the conversations people have had related to solving those problems in the first place. Put it all into one 'community voice' platform.
On your list, I would question one thing, before speaking about it generally:
'It is not possible to create a relationship with user field to a table - has to be a text'
Unless I'm not understanding what you mean here, you can do this - I do it all the time. One of the most powerful tools I use in my apps is a custom 'users' table where the primary key is a user key. In other tables, I create a formula-user field called 'User-Current' with a simple value of user(). I then create a relationship between the 'users' table and those other tables based on that 'User-Current' value (among others). It's an extremely useful way of customizing reports, having people cover for other people that are sick, etc etc.
'Changing user field to List -User field is not possible'
There are ALL KINDS of weird things that happen with user fields and list-user fields. Creating report filters can be a nightmare sometimes. The simple filter of :
"USER-LIST field - contains - Value from USER field" should be simply understood by quickbase, but it often isn't. I often have to duplicate a single user field into a formula List-User field just so i can use it properly in a report filter. Very annoying, especially as it's so simple to implement in a formula.
Relationships based on user fields and list-user fields provide so many real-world solutions to questions i see all the time in this forum.