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How can we help you adapt to your new (and evolving) priorities?

  • March 18, 2020
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I spent some time this morning looking at how a variety of businesses are adapting their approach to continue to live their mission in this new reality. My son's elementary school is holding physical education class every morning online. Brené Brown is leading non-denominational prayer groups on Instagram. Veterans groups are posting daily workout challenges on social media to inspire physical and mental fitness during this stressful time. Fine dining restaurants are converting to touchless delivery literally overnight.

 

Touching base with my team, I was inspired by the collaboration and partnership we've delivered to customers over the past week. State and local governments are spinning up apps to manage their response(s) to the COVID-19 crisis. Businesses are rapidly identifying business needs and developing applications to address them. Other clients have built apps to manage IT assets that need to be delivered to newly remote employees.

 

The world is changing fast and we all are in a constant state of trying to adapt even faster. We know you are facing new priorities and evolving challenges right now. For our team at Quick Base that means we want to help more than ever. What can we do to help you and your team succeed in this new environment? What new problems have cropped up? How can we help you solve them? We can help with everything from app building advice to simply being a sounding board. We know the power of our community, and we know that you all are doing amazing things everyday; if you are creating an app that you think others could benefit from, please add it to our App Exchange.

We look forward to connecting and collaborating with you soon.


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Neil Forbes
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      I love seeing all of this support from the QuickBase Team. As of right now we are just starting to transition and everything is getting monitored closely. Currently no major changes or systems need but that could change at any minute as we transition how we work. I will repost here if that changes or I come across something that would be valuable to share with the community.

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      Derek Hutchinson
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      Grand Rapids, MI
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      • DwightMunson1
      • Quickbase Alumni
      • March 18, 2020
      I can' t think of anything to specifically help us in the current environment, but there are a couple things in general I could use: 

      1. Enhanced email subscriptions that can go straight to our customers (who do not have Quick Base access). 
      Example: Right now I have a report that needs to be sent to several different construction coordinators that are part of our customer's company. Each coordinator has their own report. As of now, we have an email address set up through our organization where each report gets sent, then we have email rules set up to forward it to the specific coordinator. This takes several steps to set up a new coordinator. 

      2. Salesforce has a feature where you can download a report that is formatted instead of just a CSV. So if I'm in my customer's system I can do that, but not in our system. 

      3. Ability to edit the logs to text fields that have logging enabled. Some of them can become messy, if they are rich text fields. 

      4. Built in holidays. Declare your company's holidays so the WeekdayAdd/WorkdayAdd will automatically count them.

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      Dwight Munson
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        • JenniMurray
        • Quickbase Alumni
        • March 18, 2020
        We have a need to add a questionnaire form from App (B) into another App (A), where the team filling it out lives in. The reason for this is that the info from the survey should really reside in App (B) for reference and tracking. The team only needs to fill it out as management will be reviewing the answers and follow up with any requests.

        My thought process was to put a button on App (A) for the team to click and be routed to fill out the form that lives on App (B). Would that be the best way, or would it be better to set up a table in App (A) then sync the info into App (B)? I'd like to avoid duplicating data.

        Or is there a way to include/embed/iframe the form from App (B) in a home page within App (A), so it doesn't look like they are leaving App (A) to fill it out?


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        Jenni Murray
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        • DebraCote
        • Quickbase Alumni
        • March 19, 2020
        Love the holiday idea as well.

        With thousands of users moving to remote and looking for access to data, we're limited to who can view based on license limit. Would QB consider a free "viewer" license like other vendor solutions offer?

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        • StephenArnold
        • Quickbase Alumni
        • March 20, 2020
        Nothing new has popped up yet but our company has only been working from home for a week.  A&M University (where I work) is going to online classes because of COVID-19 starting next week so we may see something pop up then.  I will reach out if we have any problems.

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        • AmyGosz2
        • Quickbase Alumni
        • March 23, 2020
        From my perspective, we are doing good. Our company already lives on laptops so it has been fairly easy to transition to work at home mode. Also, throughout the past year, departments went on a 'test' BCP to makes sure they were able to stay at home and continue working. Notifications were sent out the night before so that was the only notice employees got and they were expected to stay home and work and not show up at the office.

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