Community AMA on Product Roadmap with Jay Jamison-July 11th
+17We are excited to continue our Ask Me Anything series by having Jay Jamison, our Chief Product and Technology Officer, hosting our next AMA. On the heels of Empower and his product keynote speech Jay is ready to tackle your questions and learn a little more about what is on your mind.
(If you missed out on the Product Keynote at Empower you can find it here)
On Thursday, July 11th, weÕll host a live AMA (Ask Me Anything) featuring Jay. Jay will be here from 2-3 p.m. EST to answer all your burning questions. Did you get a chance to attend his keynote at Empower and you have even more questions about all the awesome features he talked about on stage? Are you super curious about the future of our new table reports? Do you want to know more about Jay's philosophy and passion for Quick Base development? Perhaps you are just curious to know about his favorite flavor of ice cream. Here is an awesome chance to put your questions to Jay.
You can start submitting your questions here in this Community thread between now and the event. Then Jay will be in this community thread live to tackle them on Thursday, July 11th!
I watched through the keynote and I was curious if there are plans to roll out the KPI reports and Heat maps as report types that would be available in tables or are those only going to be available on the executive dashboards?
Any plans to allow arithmetic calculations between columns on a summary report?
For example we have a column on a summary report for Widgets Produced and a column for Man Hours and we want to calculate Widgets per Man Hour. Right now we have to contrive and maintain extra parent tables to be able to summarize values up to a parent to be able to get at the totals to divide.
But users expect it to be like Excel "I see the numbers - why can't I just divide A / B.
For example we have a column on a summary report for Widgets Produced and a column for Man Hours and we want to calculate Widgets per Man Hour. Right now we have to contrive and maintain extra parent tables to be able to summarize values up to a parent to be able to get at the totals to divide.
But users expect it to be like Excel "I see the numbers - why can't I just divide A / B.
+12Are there plans to make the "Add a column to this report" modal with a search-field option? When you customize a report, you can use the search-fields feature to find a field or a type of field. When adding additional columns from the in-report modal; you still have to scroll through (sometimes hundreds) of fields to find the one(s) you want.
Can you speak to the possibility of transferring sync table app tokens between users? Someone asked me this a few months back and I didn't know the answer, is it or will it be possible to transfer tokens between users so that should a builder leave the Company, nothing inadvertently breaks when IT invalidates their account?
+12Is there a plan to enable Automations to copy and be disabled, like Webhooks are, when copying an application?
Can you outline the specifics of how sandbox mode merges to the live copy? How does it know to preserve recently changed records?
+12Could we go back to displaying the Record Picker with all it's values once it is selected; not just the 1st-one. Before the type-ahead record picker was rolled out; when you selected a parent-record; all 3 of the Record Picker field selections would display in the Related Reference/Proxy field. Now, only the 1st one shows up.
This has meant a lot of manual update to "switch" the Record Picker around to move the (often) 2nd value into the 1st slot so that the most relatable value of information is still visible once the selection is made.
Otherwise, we must always show the Lookup field values on the form in Add/Edit mode; which can clutter up the page.
This has meant a lot of manual update to "switch" the Record Picker around to move the (often) 2nd value into the 1st slot so that the most relatable value of information is still visible once the selection is made.
Otherwise, we must always show the Lookup field values on the form in Add/Edit mode; which can clutter up the page.
Hi Kyle, thanks for the question. We have had very strong response on Exec Dashboards, as our community really loved seeing the modern ui, the drag and drop re-sizing, new chart types, and dark mode #FTW! :) As a result, as of right now, we're prioritizing getting the Exec Dashboard into Early Access and then into General Availability as fast as we can.
We have heard from several folks that they'd like to see us potentially taking hte KPIs and Heatmaps and making those general chart types. This is not yet roadmapped, but it is going to be an area that we continue to evaluate. So long answer to we're thinking about it.
We have heard from several folks that they'd like to see us potentially taking hte KPIs and Heatmaps and making those general chart types. This is not yet roadmapped, but it is going to be an area that we continue to evaluate. So long answer to we're thinking about it.
No there is not. We are looking at ways to enable this type of capability as a more scalable feature set inside of Automations.
Yea, we agree this is a big problem area. We don't have an exact timeline on this, but it is a very interesting area that we plan to explore. More complex that it first appears, but an area we are investigating and working through the implications.
Yeah, as we showed at the Product Keynote last month, we are currently in the midst of a broad rethink and redesign of columns on reports. We need this to provide a vastly simpler experience, whehter you want to mange 1, 5, or many more columns.
Any plans on the roadmap to add SQL cloud-based services (Azure and AWS) as data sources to create connected tables? We use Qunect today, which is great, but a new data source service would be even better...
I thought it was mentioned these would be at the realm level. Will the dashboards be available at an app level as well? Can we combine multiple apps into one dashboard?
When we create a special user list field, the ENTIRE list of users populates and you have to delete users to get to your list. Since my app has 3500 users, that's a bad deal. Can we create a custom user list from a dynamic user load that we can save for multiple reuse? I think you can create groups at the realm level but not at our app level.
+12I was very happy to see that table reports are again on the roadmap. One thing I would want to make sure is that Dynamic Filters that we currently use (but do not have to exist in the table as a column) remains a feature in the new iteration of reporting. It would be a step-backwards to have to include columns in a report, simply because you need to filter on them in some way.
We do not currently have this on the radar, but know how important it is to manage applications at this level and we are familiar with this challenge of the person leaving and not having something break.
We would suggest as a best practice using service accounts for things like Sync and Automations to help alleviate this challenge.
That said, I do think that in chatting with folks internally about this that building a good blog or community post on Service Account best practices would be useful--I just realized that I don't think that there's a great online help or community post on this and we should get one. (Here is an article that we do have on this)
Thanks for the question--definitely need to add more content and info on what best practices are.
We would suggest as a best practice using service accounts for things like Sync and Automations to help alleviate this challenge.
That said, I do think that in chatting with folks internally about this that building a good blog or community post on Service Account best practices would be useful--I just realized that I don't think that there's a great online help or community post on this and we should get one. (Here is an article that we do have on this)
Thanks for the question--definitely need to add more content and info on what best practices are.
Our new ALM architecture (showcased as part of our announcement on the new Sandbox) has been built to help with these types of challenges. We are not specifically targeting your request, but are taking a holistic look at how this architecture can benefit features such as app copies, backups and restores, transfers, etc. The moving of apps that are connected to one another has some very deep implications as it relates to builder expectations, and it is important to us we get that right when we approach it.
What's the best way to report bugs? I've tried a couple of times to report them through a support ticket, but it just seems to confuse them. I haven't seen a page that shows all known bugs and gives a way to report new ones, like a lot of products have. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right spot?
I know that copying Automations when copying an app is a current challenge, and I am sorry that this is not working the way that many would want. Since it's launch last summer, Automations has experienced tremendous and sustained growth. This is creating some interesting challenges for us -- as we know we need to continue to invest heavily to continue to make this capability more robust and more highly functional. We also know that there are capabilities that customers will expect such as the copying capability you are requesting. The net of all that is that we see the Automations feature and functionality area as an area of high investment priority for us across many dimensions. We are not yet at a point where I think we can commit on when and how we do the copying, but I would say stay tuned and keep in touch with us on our approahc on Automations, as I expect that we will have some important technical developments to speak to in the coming months.
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