Software Source Control
Is anyone out there managing software source code using Quickbase? If not, has anyone connected Quickbase to other products out there like Bit Bucket? ------------------------------ Ed Mathias -...
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Ed,
Source Control with Quick Base is not like traditional software dev where you can truly lock down your change management, source control, build control and deployments. If and administrator wants to make changes there is no way to prevent that. If you have only one admin for the application who is disciplined then you can get a limited amount source control.
We are using Visual Studio Code as the IDE.
code.visualstudio.com
This is now owned by Microsoft.
Once you get that downloaded and installed, we wrote an VSC Extension for Quick Base.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=klubnik.quick-base-formula-syntax
This is still the first version of the Extension but there is an upgrade coming here in the 4th quarter. We will probably have another in Q1 of 2020.
I have VSC connected to Git Hub. For small clients we maintain the repository. For larger ones that have an Enterprise account Quick Base is one set inside their account.
This works "well" for formula fields and code pages. If you are using IOL you can put that into Source as well.
However there is no real way to control your forms and form rules with Source. Most of your UX is outside of the ability to use Source Control.
Hope this helps. Reach out with questions and any additional improvement you would like to see in the VSC Extension.
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Don Larson
Paasporter
Westlake OH
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Source Control with Quick Base is not like traditional software dev where you can truly lock down your change management, source control, build control and deployments. If and administrator wants to make changes there is no way to prevent that. If you have only one admin for the application who is disciplined then you can get a limited amount source control.
We are using Visual Studio Code as the IDE.
code.visualstudio.com
This is now owned by Microsoft.
Once you get that downloaded and installed, we wrote an VSC Extension for Quick Base.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=klubnik.quick-base-formula-syntax
This is still the first version of the Extension but there is an upgrade coming here in the 4th quarter. We will probably have another in Q1 of 2020.
I have VSC connected to Git Hub. For small clients we maintain the repository. For larger ones that have an Enterprise account Quick Base is one set inside their account.
This works "well" for formula fields and code pages. If you are using IOL you can put that into Source as well.
However there is no real way to control your forms and form rules with Source. Most of your UX is outside of the ability to use Source Control.
Hope this helps. Reach out with questions and any additional improvement you would like to see in the VSC Extension.
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Don Larson
Paasporter
Westlake OH
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Thanks Don.
I am not looking to control Quickbase development but more along the lines of traditional source code for development in traditional programming languages. Ideally, from a task in my application, I have a way to check-in/out source code and have one primary repository for all source code for the company.
I think I'm going to need to look at something like Bit Bucket and see how I could connect Quickbase to Bit Bucket.
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Ed A Mathias
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I am not looking to control Quickbase development but more along the lines of traditional source code for development in traditional programming languages. Ideally, from a task in my application, I have a way to check-in/out source code and have one primary repository for all source code for the company.
I think I'm going to need to look at something like Bit Bucket and see how I could connect Quickbase to Bit Bucket.
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Ed A Mathias
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- Ed,
I completely whiffed on that one.
So if I am following you correctly, QB would be the the PM layer for the software change requests, tasking and the version control is Bit Bucket. I do not know anyone doing that but would like to see your project when you have made progress.
Good luck.
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Don Larson
Paasporter
Westlake OH
------------------------------- Yep, you got it.
We use QB to manage all work across the entire company. We are system integrators and every project typically has a need to manage source code we develop. for me, two primary objectives.
1. Have a solid solution to manage source code.
2. From the project/task have a method to understand all the source code changes.
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Ed A Mathias
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