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📢📢📢📢 Introducing "Q Tips", a blog series designed for Qrew members to share tips with the rest of The Qrew. Q Tips are short and sweet. The idea behind a Q Tip is there's something you do in Quickbase that makes your life easier, and you want to give access to this gold nugget to the rest of The Qrew.  Do you want to submit your own Q Tip? Join the Champions Program and take the Q Tip challenge! I'll review all submissions and publish entries everyone in The Qrew can benefit from. What do you get? Points, badges, and the priceless feeling of knowing you made The Qrew a little bit smarter today.📢📢📢 Here are three slick Q Tips submitted by The Qrew this month... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @Prachi Thakkar shared the following on setting up an effective Email Notification:  Streamline your workflow with email notifications in Quickbase: Identify Trigger

📅📅Come join The Cash Money Qrew on February 29th as we discuss how to plan for Calendar Quirks like Leap Day in a Quickbase app. 📅📅 Whether its five Fridays or three pay periods in a month, or any other one-off calendar exceptions you need to build into your workflows, there are all sorts of ways you can account for this in Quickbase. Come join Qrew Group leader @Krunal Thakkar and special guest and Qrew Champion @Nichole Braswell from Sympo as we tackle some of the ways you can design Quickbase apps to handle any kind of unusual dates in the business calendar.  Register today! 

Happy February (or as I like to say happy FABuary)! This year is a leap year which is a good thing – we have such a jam-packed month full of Customer Network meetings & Webinars that we need the extra day.   Below is a list of all our events for the month complete with registration links and agendas. As always you can see all of these listed on www.quickbase.com/events.   See you on the internet! 🏭 Manufacturing – Wednesday, Feb 7th @ 12pm EST  Quickbase guru Sam Trachy, will share an awesome app he built for manufacturers: multi-barcode scanning that includes a map of a warehouse showing asset location. You may know Sam from the daily Quickbase office hours.  ⚙️ App Builders – Tuesday, Feb 13th @ 12pm EST  James Travaglini, Quickbase Solutions Consultant, will be sharing Quickbase's international capabilities. We will cover localizing experiences in your apps. This content will be especially relevant to customers that have apps

📢📢📢Excited to announce two new Qrew Groups launching in February!!📢📢📢 On Thursday, February 15th, both the Philly Qrew and the Denver Qrew will be kicking off.  After hearing from many in the Community that a virtual meeting would be more preferred, we're going to kick off both of these Qrew Groups with a Teams meeting. All interested Qrew members should register below and a member of our team will send you a Teams invite. This is a change from our previous plans to meet in person. Both Qrew Groups will be looking to plan in person meetups in the future, but on February 15th, the meetings will be not be in person and will instead take place on a Teams call. Philly's focus will be on the Product Roadmap. If you have ideas for how to make Quickbase better, come join us as we'll have members of Quickbase Product Marketing in attendance to go through where Quickbase's product focus will be in 2024. @Mihir Mulloth from the City of Philadelphia is our Qrew Champion who will be l

We hope this post finds you well and thriving in the new year! If you've been part of the Quickbase journey, you might be familiar with our Customer Network program—an incredible virtual user group initiative run by the CS @ Scale team. As we step into 2024, we're thrilled to share some exciting updates and extend an invitation to our vibrant community to participate in shaping the future of the Quickbase Customer Network.  Reflecting on 2023:  In the past year, we hosted a total of 59 meetings, bringing together an average of ~30 customers each time. What's even more inspiring is that 25 customers took the stage to share their Quickbase use cases, showcasing the positive impact our platform has had on their businesses.  What's New in 2024:  Consistency is Key: We've learned that a regular meeting schedule is crucial for fostering meaningful connections. Most of our groups will now be meeting every month, providing a consistent cadence for our commu

📢📢📢📢 Introducing "Q Tips", a blog series designed for Qrew members to share tips with the rest of The Qrew. Q Tips are short and sweet. The idea behind a Q Tip is there's something you do in Quickbase that makes your life easier, and you want to give access to this gold nugget to the rest of The Qrew.  Do you want to submit your own Q Tip? Join the Champions Program and take the Q Tip challenge! I'll review all submissions and publish entries everyone in The Qrew can benefit from. What do you get? Points, badges, and the priceless feeling of knowing you made The Qrew a little bit smarter today.📢📢📢 Here are a few slick Q Tips submitted by The Qrew this month... Shout out to Fraidy, Chrissy, and Chayce for three awesome Q Tips below. Thanks for making us all a little bit better at Quickbase!  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From @Fraidy Jacoby: "I have a table that trac

🏆🏆This is Qrew Champion Profiles, where we learn a little bit more about our Qrew Champions making a difference within The Qrew. Our Champions program is open for registration. Sign up today, start taking those challenges and climb the rankings until you reach Champion status like the profiled Champion below! 🏆🏆 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Qrew Champion Profile is on @Tammie King!  Tammie is a long-time Quickbase lover who works as an Application Analyst at Mintz in Downtown Boston. Speaking of Boston, Tammie runs our Boston Qrew, which hosted its first meetup at the Mintz offices in September! Here are a few more fun facts that Tammie shared via the Champions program!  Favorite TV Show: Jeopardy Dream Vacation Spot: Iceland What Does Being a Qrew Champion Mean to You? I love advocating for Quickbase and helping others through the struggles I have faced. I love

❄️❄️December is here! What a month it is. A month of holiday spirit and tradition... Traditions like Home Alone and Die Hard being on TV all month long. Ugly sweater parties with friends and family. Waiting until the last minute to do all your holiday shopping. Watching Home Alone and Die Hard 2 because Kevin McAllister and John McClane just can't catch a break at Christmas. We'll make some new year's resolutions, and we'll honor them through at least the second week of January.   And when we're not watching the downfall of Hans Gruber and The Sticky Bandits, we'll engage with The Qrew!   Here's a look at all the Qrew events in the month of December:    Qrew Group Meetups:  December 7th, 1pm EST: Members of the Education and Non-Profit Customer Network Qrew will be meeting up to discuss industry specific challenges.  December 12th, 1pm EST: Do you work in retail or real estate? Come join the next Retail/Real Estate Customer Network Qrew mee

🏆🏆This is Qrew Champion Profiles, where we learn a little bit more about our Qrew Champions making a difference within The Qrew. Our Champions program is open for registration. Sign up today, start taking those challenges and climb the rankings until you reach Champion status like the profiled Champion below! 🏆🏆 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️Today's Champion Profile is on @Debra Cote, Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Performance at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute! 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️ Here are some fun facts Deb shared with us through the Champions Profile challenge in the Quickbase Champions program! What's Your Favorite Book or TV Show? Ted Lasso What's Your Dream Vacation locale? Anywhere in France; love Paris! What's a Superpower you wish you had? To be able to sleep on a plane.  When and how did you discover Quickbase? 2008 - a colleague had used it (or had demo'd it) at a previous employer. Describe your "a-ha" moment - what was the breakthrough moment for you with Quickbas

🏆🏆This is Qrew Champion Profiles, where we learn a little bit more about our Qrew Champions making a difference within The Qrew. Our Champions program is open for registration. Sign up today, start taking those challenges and climb the rankings until you reach Champion status like the profiled Champion below! 🏆🏆 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️Today's Champion Profile is on @Kelly Hayes, a Technical Specialist at Benesch! 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️ Here are some fun facts Kelly shared with us through the Champions Profile challenge in the Quickbase Champions program! What's your favorite book or TV Show (or both)?  "A court of Thorns and Roses" series by Sarah J Maas is my favorite book series. For TV, I'm hooked on "Big Timber" on Netflix!  What's your dream vacation locale? Anywhere at a beach on the ocean?  What's a superpower you wish you had? Animal shapeshifting w

📢📢📢📢 Introducing "Q Tips", a blog series designed for Qrew members to share tips with the rest of The Qrew. Q Tips are short and sweet. The idea behind a Q Tip is there's something you do in Quickbase that makes your life easier, and you want to give access to this gold nugget to the rest of The Qrew.  Do you want to submit your own Q Tip? Join the Champions Program and take the Q Tip challenge! I'll review all submissions and publish entries everyone in The Qrew can benefit from. What do you get? Points, badges, and the priceless feeling of knowing you made The Qrew a little bit smarter today.📢📢📢 Here are a few slick Q Tips submitted by The Qrew this month... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @Adam Keever writes:  Emailing attachments isn't always a good idea. Sometimes the file size is too big and other times the attachment might change over time and no longer be appl

The Qrew, we have reached November! Can you believe it? The year "2023" was beginning to not sound like some futuristic year set in a Terminator movie, and now it's nearly over. In November, we turn the clocks back. We complain about turning the clocks back. We scour the house for all the winter clothes, we tell ourselves we'll create a better system for finding said clothes next year.  At Thanksgiving, we come together with our loved ones to be thankful. We watch the Detroit Lions, sort of. And parades. We grind our way through meals with in-laws. It's a truly wonderful time of year.  Hopefully your peers, your colleagues, your leaders are thankful for the Quickbase apps you are creating, maintaining, and enhancing to add value to your organizations! At Quickbase, we are thankful for our builders, our admins, our community. And hopefully you're as thankful as I am to be a part of such an amazing community in The Qrew!  In the spirit of constant improvement, The Qrew h

📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢 The Ca$h Money Qrew 💵💵 will be having its kicking off meeting on Wednesday, October 18th at 12pm EST! Come join @Krunal Thakkar, @Cari Snavely, and @Diana Ciccolini on the first call! There will be demonstrations of ways the Quickbase Finance team uses Quickbase and Krunal will be showing the break-even analysis calculator he has designed in Quickbase! All are welcome and encouraged to join and learn, not just Qrew members with financial backgrounds!  Register Here!

Introducing "Q Tips", a blog series designed for Qrew members to share tips with the rest of The Qrew. Q Tips are short and sweet. The idea behind a Q Tip is there's something you do in Quickbase that makes your life easier, and you want to give access to this gold nugget to the rest of The Qrew.  Do you want to submit your own Q Tip? Join the Champions Program and take the Q Tip challenge! I'll review all submissions and publish entries everyone in The Qrew can benefit from. What do you get? Points, badges, and the priceless feeling of knowing you made The Qrew a little bit smarter today. Shoutout to @ANGELA RIVERA for sharing a Keyboard Shortcut as her Q Tip. If you're in a Date field and you type "t", today's date will automatically populate the field. After chatting with Angela to see if she had any other shortcuts to share, Angela thankfully pointed me to a fantastic blog that @Sharon Faust, The Quick Base Junkie, had written about this same topic, which was where A

Introducing a new blog series, Qrew Champion Profiles, where we get to learn a little bit more about our Qrew Champions. Our Champions program is open for registration. Sign up today, start taking those challenges and climb the rankings until you reach Champion status!  Champion: Daniel Carpenter, Fed Ex  Favorite Book/TV Show: The Way of Kings/Criminal Minds Dream Vacation Spot: Hawaii  A Superpower You Wish You Had: Flying  When/How Did You Discover Quickbase? I moved from our Field Ops to our corporate office and was first introduced to Quickbase through an app that we used to manage defects and root cause analysis.  What Was Your "A-Ha" Moment with Quickbase? When I realized that the app we were managing for defects and root cause analysis was custom-made and not by our IT department. What Advice Do You Have for New Qrew Members: Look at every user story, every bit of content coming from other Qrew members and think of how it relates to you and y

Performance improvements coming to the New Table Report Style In May 2021, we made the new style for table reports the default for all users. We designed the new style to help your users get their work done faster, by adding features like column filtering, hierarchical grouping and re-sizable columns. Since May, we continue to see significantly more people using the new style compared to the legacy style. Over the past few weeks alone, we’ve seen 4 million more clicks in the new style versus legacy. We have been focusing on addressing questions and issues with the new experience. As a result, we’ve fixed a number of bugs reported by customers about the new style. We’ve already received feedback from hundreds of you about the new table report style. First, thank you for your input! We strive to balance the needs and the preferences of different personas and different use cases to meet the needs of the overall Quickbase community. One thing we heard from you after the new style became th

Introducing a new blog series, Qrew Champion Profiles, where we get to learn a little bit more about our Qrew Champions. Our Champions program is open for registration. Sign up today, start taking those challenges and climb the rankings until you reach Champion status!  A frequent flyer in Customer Networks meetings, Sherry Blackburn has been a longtime Quickbase advocate working for PeaceHealth. She was active in our Quickbase Heroes program, and has already jumped into the fray taking all on challenges within Quickbase Champions.  Sherry is also a newlywed! Per Sherry, after decades of "fiercely independent singledom", Sherry's sister re-introduced her to a lifelong friend, and this past March the two tied the knot!  Sherry accepted the challenge to share a little bit about herself. Additionally, we've shared a few quotes from the Quickbase staff members who have worked closely with Sherry. What's your favorite book or TV show (or both)?  That's like a

📢📢📢It's a big day here at Quickbase! Our Product Launch highlights an array of features all designed to cut down on the Gray Work weighing down your teams and companies. Check out the below resources so you can be fully locked in to everything re: Quickbase Product Launch!!!📢📢📢 📰📰📰We have a blog summarizing all our features here!📰📰📰 📼📼📼On October 11th, we'll have a webinar on FastField and Quickbase. For everyone who is working on the go, or if you have teams working in the field that need to communicate back to the office, this is a webinar you won't want to miss. FastField is a complete game-changer for Quickbase and our offline mobile capabilities. Come join us on October 11th and see for yourself.📼📼📼 What Else? 🔥🔥🔥Yes, Mugatu, it is. On October 24th, we'll have a webinar on Quickbase's suite of AI solutions. No better way to Unleash Your Productivity than with AI in Quickbase. This webinar will go through how AI is cha

Introducing "Q Tips", a blog series designed for Qrew members to share tips with the rest of The Qrew. Q Tips are short and sweet. The idea behind a Q Tip is there's something you do in Quickbase that makes your life easier, and you want to give access to this gold nugget to the rest of The Qrew.  Do you want to submit your own Q Tip? Join the Champions Program and take the Q Tip challenge! I'll review all submissions and publish entries everyone in The Qrew can benefit from. What do you get? Points, badges, and the priceless feeling of knowing you made The Qrew a little bit smarter today. @Tammie King shares a Pipeline below that's been super helpful to her in putting all of her formula and field properties in one spot. Nice job Tammie!  "I have recently built a Pipeline that Grabs all of the tables and fields in an app and stores them as a table within the app. It uses JSON to grab formulas and field properties as well. I love it because it is a place I can go to

Ah October...baseball playoffs, Oktoberfest, Halloween costume parties, pumpkin flavored everything. A truly special time of year. And back here at Quickbase, we have an exciting month ahead for ways you can tap into The Qrew... October 4th - You're going to want to save this date. Quickbase will be unveiling a product launch with some exciting new features and beta program opportunities! Check back here on 10/4 for more details!  October 10th - Retail Real Estate Customer Network Qrew Meeting - Qrew Members with Real Estate or Real Estate adjacent use cases convene to share and learn from each other. Join this call!  October 11th - Realm Admin Customer Network Qrew Meeting; join a call with other realm admins and see how the best and the brightest governance Qrew members are keeping their realms in order through this amazing Customer Network Qrew meetup. Register here!  October 11th - Quickbase + FastField: Better Together; at this webinar you will learn how you c

Introducing a new blog series, Qrew Champion Profiles, where we get to learn a little bit more about our Qrew Champions. Our Champions program is open for registration. Sign up today, start taking those challenges and climb the rankings until you reach Champion status!  Qrew Champion Profile: Laura Linssen, J.J. Keller  Hailing from the great state of Wisconsin, Laura Linssen is a connoisseur of cheese curds and all the things that help streamline. Laura is a Quickbase Developer II at J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of safety and regulatory compliance solutions.  When she is not using her creativity to problem solve at work, Laura uses her skills to come up with new superstitions to get her favorite, legendary Green Bay football team to another championship. Here are a few more fun facts about Laura, as well as a glimpse into how she discovered Quickbase, and some tips for those starting their Quickbase journey today!  Favorite bo

Introducing "Q Tips", a blog series designed for Qrew members to share tips with the rest of The Qrew. Q Tips are short and sweet. The idea behind a Q Tip is there's something you do in Quickbase that makes your life easier, and you want to give access to this gold nugget to the rest of The Qrew.  Do you want to submit your own Q Tip? Join the Champions Program and take the Q Tip challenge! I'll review all submissions and publish entries everyone in The Qrew can benefit from. What do you get? Points, badges, and the priceless feeling of knowing you made The Qrew a little bit smarter today. We have two Q Tips to share today. First, @Krunal Thakkar shared the following:  "In the Formula field if you want to use the field name in the formula then use Ctrl + Space instead of selecting from the drop down of choose fields & functions. This is very useful instead of searching when there is many fields on the form." If you're finding its taking too long to find that fi

WeÕre excited to announce our Builder Program, a new way for you to build apps, develop and advance your skills, and explore new features.The Builder Program is a free personal account for building non-production apps that never expires - perfect for trying new things, exploring features that your current account may not have, creating apps for personal use, and more!So sign up today for your own account and get started on your journey here.

Introducing "Q Tips", a blog series designed for Qrew members to share tips with the rest of The Qrew. Q Tips are short and sweet. The idea behind a Q Tip is there's something you do in Quickbase that makes your life easier, and you want to give access to this gold nugget to the rest of The Qrew.  Do you want to submit your own Q Tip? Join the Champions Program and take the Q Tip challenge! I'll review all submissions and publish entries everyone in The Qrew can benefit from. What do you get? Points, badges, and the priceless feeling of knowing you made The Qrew a little bit smarter today. If you're a) breathing and b) use Quickbase, you have probably asked yourself at one point what's the difference between all the different admin types in Quickbase. If you work at Quickbase and are customer-facing, you have probably stumbled and bumbled your way through a half decent explanation before ultimately looking up the official answer and sending it to a customer. Well let's p

What's up, Quickbase Qrew, how we doing?  A few updates I wanted to make everyone aware of regarding Qrew Groups... 1) Our Qrew Groups page has been updated to share more of them. We've added pages for the Boston Qrew and the Raleigh/Durham Qrew, two local groups who will be having their first meetups in September. 2) We're excited to see @Jim Harrison bringing back the Portland Qrew. For those of you in the greater PDX area, you need to connect with this group as they're meeting every month, they kicked things off at Jim's office in July! Nice work Jim!  3) @Caroline Stuart-Freas and I are piloting having Customer Networks have their own Qrew Discussions page via the Pipelines Customer Network. Definitely connect with this Qrew if you have Pipelines questions, this will be a great way to connect on Pipelines in between monthly meetings. 4) If you're interested in starting a Qrew Group (either virtual or live in person), we should chat! My contact info is in my signature, I'