NEED TO MANIPULATE CSV FILE PRIOR TO IMPORT
Hope dandiebolt wins the Hawaii trip. Maybe next one to Brazil. Think I am one of the few Brazilian happy quickbase customers.... My company imports 4 CSV files, regularly (Daily basis) to One...
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Hi, I'm from Brazil too, I've never used Dan's techniques (they sound fantastic) but they are out of my level ( I don't know programming).
I'm thinking of giving up quickbase after 3 years without seeing advances in the internationalization or use advanced mobile features (as we are a construction company I need offline access).
Today we do many routines in Excel to be able to import the bank information and boletos, which generates many human mistakes and loss of time.
I am studying migrating to windev / webdev and starting from scratch. I would like to know your experience and perspectives. please contact me at martin@mirantesdalagoa.com.br
I'm thinking of giving up quickbase after 3 years without seeing advances in the internationalization or use advanced mobile features (as we are a construction company I need offline access).
Today we do many routines in Excel to be able to import the bank information and boletos, which generates many human mistakes and loss of time.
I am studying migrating to windev / webdev and starting from scratch. I would like to know your experience and perspectives. please contact me at martin@mirantesdalagoa.com.br
I encourage you to stick with QuickBase. It is less expensive than other enterprise solutions, vastly more customizable and more importantly I think you would be greatly underestimating the effort to recreate your accumulated work of the last three years in a new technology. Every product has gaps in its feature set and you will likely just discover new gaps in these other technologies.
Regarding your two issues (1) internationalization and (2) mobile, I had the following comments.
A final solution for internationalization will have to come from QuickBase and when the technology they select is in place, the capability will rapidly expand to many languages as fast as translation sets can be created - this is usually done by contractors who specialize in internationalization. I have no idea where this stands in their planning pipeline. However, in the meantime there are a number of things that can be done now to make the product more useful to non-English users. Feel free to contact me off-world for details. Also, I would encourage you to dialog with the other Brazilian users as I am totally serious about developing Brazil's usage of QuickBase.
Regarding mobile, QuickBase is making improvements in their mobile offering. Again I have no knowledge of their product plans. However, there is a bundle of technology that goes by the name of PWA (Progressive Web Applications) that holds great promise to bring the features of installed native applications to web based applications. One technology that provides these new capabilities is called Service Workers and all browsers manufactures have adopted it (Apple the last holdout to release SW in upcoming Safari 11.1). In the other browsers (Chrome, FireFox, Opera, Edge, UC Browser, Samsung Browser) Service Worker technology is available now and you can do things such as offline usage of QuickBase, notifications, add to home screen.
I work with these technologies in my non-QuickBase work and I can tell you for a fact that as 2018 rolls out there are massive implications for using these and other technologies with QuickBase
Regarding your two issues (1) internationalization and (2) mobile, I had the following comments.
A final solution for internationalization will have to come from QuickBase and when the technology they select is in place, the capability will rapidly expand to many languages as fast as translation sets can be created - this is usually done by contractors who specialize in internationalization. I have no idea where this stands in their planning pipeline. However, in the meantime there are a number of things that can be done now to make the product more useful to non-English users. Feel free to contact me off-world for details. Also, I would encourage you to dialog with the other Brazilian users as I am totally serious about developing Brazil's usage of QuickBase.
Regarding mobile, QuickBase is making improvements in their mobile offering. Again I have no knowledge of their product plans. However, there is a bundle of technology that goes by the name of PWA (Progressive Web Applications) that holds great promise to bring the features of installed native applications to web based applications. One technology that provides these new capabilities is called Service Workers and all browsers manufactures have adopted it (Apple the last holdout to release SW in upcoming Safari 11.1). In the other browsers (Chrome, FireFox, Opera, Edge, UC Browser, Samsung Browser) Service Worker technology is available now and you can do things such as offline usage of QuickBase, notifications, add to home screen.
I work with these technologies in my non-QuickBase work and I can tell you for a fact that as 2018 rolls out there are massive implications for using these and other technologies with QuickBase