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CullenCoates
Qrew Trainee
3 years ago

Organized, catalogued central repository for pipelines information

It seems to me that there is an enormous amount of valuable and often critical information about use of pipelines that is being posted in a variety of places, Slack pipelines, Slack General, Community...
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EvanMartinez
Qrew Elite
Hi Cullen,

Thank you for the feedback on our help documentation and information on Pipelines, things are spread out right now but centralizing them is something we agree we need to do work on. Right now you can find the most technical and clear cut content on our User Guide/Help, more how to or use case driven examples in our Community/Slack, and then educational focused materials in our University which can be a little daunting when you are trying to find the right flavor of guidance for your needs. We are trying with things like our Automations to Pipelines Hub or our Code Pages Sample App to collect examples from across our various channels into a more central location. Feedback like this on where builders are getting stuck or frustrated finding content is very helpful as we keep trying to consolidate. If there is anything specific you are looking for in the short term don't hesitate to reach out to me as I am happy to help you find content or in the cases of an absence of examples see if we can't create something to help. 

To Marks point on examples for how to create Pop ups and capturing Record ID specifically it is a little counter intuitive but we have some examples of that in the Code Page Sample app for anyone wanting to see some of that code in action. Also I'm definitely passing on the feedback we are getting about specific channel documentation in Pipelines to the team. Please keep the feedback on your experiences coming as it really helps to drive our priorities.

I almost forgot to plug Bree's So You Want to Learn Pipelines! article as well as a place to find example apps, articles, and resources she collected. 

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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quickbase
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CullenCoates
Qrew Trainee
3 years ago
Evan
Many thanks for the update. As a start - and possible interim measure -  how about having a section in the user guide that provides an indexed link to all the resources that you mention and to others? For example, the links to the three sources you note above. Also, It shouldn't be difficult (easy for me to say) to have some sort of indexed function  within the Pipelines section so that when someone posts a "solution" or example in slack, or wherever, at least the title of the post and a link could be included. The posts could be tagged with keywords related to the index. Every day the volume of new examples and solutions grows and it will soon get to the point that it will be difficult to go back and try to capture it. The valus of this is that when folks go to the User Guide and type in "Pipelines" the first article is "about Pipelines with links to A:: of the other sources and perhaps a master resources index page.

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Cullen Coates
cwcoates@crystalbaysolutions.com
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