Fast Field
I just saw the Release Notes for this month and the Inclusion of Fastfield.
https://www.fastfieldforms.com/index.html
Anybody got real world feedback on the development and how the User lik...
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I had a meeting and was demoing fast field. The first thing to realize is, there are two types of mobile integrations.
1. Simply using Quickbase on your phone. This is just the equivalent to the mobile forms we can make (but as we all hope, updated at some point in our lives).
2. Submitting a single form via mobile.
Fast forms is number 2. It is NOT a way to just view QB and use QB on mobile.
The good:
It is really slick in its design and layout, and usage. I think it's really well done as a single submission form. Full marks here.
The bad:
Literally everything else. It is ONLY designed as a form submission. It is dreadfully expensive, and charges per submission. I wanted a better mobile experience for our field techs. For me to switch to Fast Forms, because of the fact that they need to be able to submit, then possibly re-edit their submission, that would count as another 'submission'. I estimated it would cost me 100-250k (yes a quarter of a million dollars) per year to implement. You also have to integrate yourself via a pipeline.
If you are looking at fast field, I would also look at https://www.advantagequickbase.com/
I worked with these guys a bit and they are AWESOME people with a great product. I was never able to get funding to use them, and I always felt bad about that because they really tried hard to help me. They deserve the business for sure. They are also in category 2, a form submission charged per form. But better pricing and the apis are built in, no need for pipelines. To be fair, fast field really has the best mobile interface, but Advantage is worth a look.
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Mike Tamoush
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I haven't been able to find this information about Fastfield. Can a mobile user actually use it to select from a list of Projects in Quickbase, and then fill out and submit data related to that project? From what I can tell, a mobile user can submit data, but it has no relation to and cannot be tied to anything existing in QB. Is this correct?
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Michael Frishman
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Fast Field does have the concept of Parent Fast Field records. I think they call them Lookup tables, in that once you select a parent you also get the lookups from that selection.
Right now, you either have to manually maintain the Parent table in Fast Field or else there are API calls which sounded complicated to me as I was told I would need to have a "Developer Key" - but recognizing that this needs to be made way easier, there are new Quickbase features (I think new Pipelines Step Types) coming in Q1 or maybe by the end of February to allow a less technical way of keeping the Fast Field Parent tables (Lookup tables) to match the source of truth which is Quickbase.
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Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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