Get Table Structure Data
Is there a quick way to get the field names and types for a table? I have two large tables and need to compare the fields in both to see which ones need to be updated. ----------------------------...
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Check out Ryan Pflederer's app in sample apps named "Virtual Empower: App Library"
Its a good tool that solves a lot of documentation problems. I don't understand why quickbase is not promoting it.
And a big shout out to Ryan for doing this as it is not an 'official' quickbase tool. Though it should be
@Evan Martinez
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Richard Chagnon
Chicago IL
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Its a good tool that solves a lot of documentation problems. I don't understand why quickbase is not promoting it.
And a big shout out to Ryan for doing this as it is not an 'official' quickbase tool. Though it should be
@Evan Martinez
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Richard Chagnon
Chicago IL
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- Thank you! I will review the app this evening. Looks very promising
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Paul Peterson
------------------------------- Hi Paul,
Richard's recommendation to look at Ryan's app is spot on, it makes use of the RESTful API capabilities of Quick Base and Codepages to allow the app to pull in data from your existing library. The great thing to is if you have your own specific needs and are willing to dive into the API you can customize what it returns even further for your purposes. Ryan also has a discussion thread where he talks about the app if you have any questions you can find right here. As Austin points out there can be some limitations depending on your app and realm set up but it is a great starting point for pulling out those juicy details you need.
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
------------------------------- Thank you for all of your suggestions. Today is a little chaotic, but I will look into the App Library app this evening and see how I can incorporate it into my app.
Thanks for all of you input!
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Paul Peterson
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- They probably do not promote it because it does have its issues but it is overall a wonderful tool. One of the biggest issues with it if you have a large app ecosystem is apps must have the sandboxes disabled in them for the App Library to be able to pull new data and update itself. We often leave our apps sandboxed because of another Quickbase issue(where you cannot bring records over unless the app is < 1 GB in size) so when we create the sandbox we need to populate it with our own data each time we create it.
