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StepanGurov's avatar
StepanGurov
Qrew Cadet
6 years ago

Sequence of internal QB interactions

Is there a known sequence of how internal QB interactions being performed?

Specifically:
Internal app relation evaluation
External app relation evaluation
Formula evaluation
Webhooks execution
QB Actions execution
QB Automations execution
Notification alerts

So in case you have particular field in the record being affected or triggering all of listed above, what is the order of evaluation of all steps (and if it's definite and predictable).

If anything else is happening under the hood and worth mentioning, would be happy to know.

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Stepan Gurov
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  • hhersch's avatar
    hhersch
    Quickbase Staff
    6 years ago
    Hi Stepan -

    Thanks for the question. Could you provide some context as to what you are looking for and the motivation? That might help our teams provide you the right information. You may also be interested in watching some of our past "Under the Hood" sessions from Empower. In general though, Quick Base is a special, in-memory, database. Formulas, evaluations, etc. all happen in the context of the running process in memory. We do have some things (such as Automations) that are specifically designed to run outside this context so that they can scale easier with volume (i.e., if a user needs to do processing on many records).

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    Harrison Hersch
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