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As we turn the calendar into the final month of the summer, a look ahead at what The Qrew can expect for events in August. Mark your calendars, we've got plenty of Customer Network Qrews, Office Hours, and Webinars on tap... WEBINARS Thursday, August 3rd, 1pm EST @Manny De La Cruz and @Ryan Murray will be hosting a special "Feature Focus" called "From Busywork to Breakthroughs" to help you cut out on Gray Work of chasing data and making Quickbase customers more productive.  CUSTOMER NETWORK QREWS Tuesday, August 8th, 1pm EST Come join CSM @Esther LaVielle and the rest of the Retail/Real Estate Customer Network Qrew for their virtual meetup.  Wednesday, August 9th, 1pm EST @Jennifer Richardson and the Realm Admin Customer Network Qrew will be dishing on all the best practices for governing a Quickbase Realm.  Tuesday, August 22nd, 12pm EST All the best tips and tricks with Quickbase Pipelines are being discussed by this Customer Network Qrew, hosted by @Caroline Stuart-Fr

Quickbase Qrew! Come join @Manny De La Cruz and @Ryan Murray on Thursday, August 3rd for a Feature Focus webinar: From Busywork to Breakthroughs. Register here! Manny and Ryan will be running through the New Forms feature, the latest Mobile Dashboard enhancements, and our new Scaled Solution Management feature that helps Quickbase customers track the apps and pipelines being used to make your workflows possible.  Learn about the features that help you cut down on Gray Work and let you get back to doing work that matters! Make sure to register today and block that time in your calendar, you're not going to want to miss this. 

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!  Brian Hinshaw has been making a name for himself within The Qrew. As the Quickbase Realm Admin for AT&T, Brian is responsible for overseeing Quickbase usage across hundreds of applications. Brian's doubled down on his investment in The Qrew, joining every Customer Network session he can, sharing his best practices with other Realm Admins and learning new ways Quickbase can be used across different industries. Recently, Brian stepped up to be a Qrew Group leader for the Raleigh/Durham Qrew, which had its first meetup last week. Check out the profile below to learn a little bit more about Brian and his thoughts on being a Qrew Champion!  Favorite Book or TV S

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. 5 minutes or less. 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. @Ryan Murray  is back at it sharing another Q Tip on New Forms. Here's how to add a "splash of color" to your new forms via Rich Text components. 

Introducing Qrew Group Highlights, a blog series dedicated to highlighting a Customer Network or Community-led Qrew Group. Each month, we'll highlight a different Customer Network or Qrew Group. What are Qrew Groups you ask? BAM. Enablement link. Check out the upcoming Customer Networks on our Events page. If you want to connect with others in The Qrew, no better place to do just that than through Qrew Groups. Register for some events, share your successes, and see how others in The Qrew are winning with Quickbase.  Calling all Realm Admins! Your Qrew is waiting for you... The Realm Admin Customer Network is THE spot to get the best insights and approaches to governing Quickbase realms. The best part is you get to learn directly from others who are owning this role just like you. Growing your Quickbase accounts in the right way requires a smart approach, and it's clear the best way to learn how to Realm Admin the right way is to meet others who have been there

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. 5 minutes or less. 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. Product Manager Ryan Murray has a whole bag of tricks for The Qrew with New Forms. Here's one on how to use the Navigation Bar on top of your form. There's a decent chance you're not using this bar to its fullest potential. Watch this Q Tip to see how you can save yourself some time in moving items around your new forms. 

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. 5 minutes or less. 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.  A guy you should want to get to know, Neil Beschle has been optimizing the Quickbase customer experience for over five years. Born and raised in Boston, Neil began his Quickbase career handling support cases as a member of the Technical Support team. He moved on to Customer Success, where you will now find Neil blogging, solving problems with customers via 1x1

Making accurate, data-informed decisions quickly, even while you are on the go, is critical for organizations seeking to become dynamic enterprises. To achieve this, you need to have the right data available to the right people, at the right time. Quickbase’s new mobile dashboards are designed with this in mind. With their dual functionality as a home page for your applications and a comprehensive reporting tool, the dashboards enable you to gather real-time visibility into your metrics and KPIs and in the same time trigger different workflows and actions anywhere and at any time.   Same as any other Quickbase mobile feature, your desktop dashboards are automatically available on mobile without any additional building required. However, given the different context and needs when users are accessing information through Quickbase mobile while being on the go, we encourage app admins to create a separate dashboard for mobile devices. This way you will ensure that your users will alwa

Today is a milestone day for the Quickbase Community. Today, the Quickbase Community became The Qrew. You're in The Qrew because you want to be around others like you. People who really "get it". Solving problems in Quickbase is part of who you are. When business challenges arise, you soft default to Relationships and Key Fields. To Reports and Dashboards. To Formulas and Pipelines. Or as an admin, you're thinking about Access. About security. About Centers of Excellence and Application Lifecycle Management and Capturing Value.  You're not alone. There are so many members of The Qrew who are actively getting $#!+ done in Quickbase, but how do we get access to these resources? What does it really mean to be in The Qrew?  Here are the ways you can tap into The Qrew today:  1) Create a Profile. You won't be able to post in any Discussions until you have a profile created. It's super quick.  2) Join our Champions program. This is a gamified way you can be rewarded for y

I want to create a line chart that contains "closed cases", "new cases", "cases in process", which x and y axis should I choose? In x axis, I don't have choice that only means date, they are all "create date", "closed date"?Should I create some new fields? OR use some formula to solve my problem?------------------------------Charles Su------------------------------

As we are three weeks out from Empower (register here!), we want to hear from our Community about the experience today. We're asking for Community members to take a few minutes to complete the following survey.  Thank you in advance for your feedback! Community Survey------------------------------Ben Simon bsimon@quickbase.comDo you have Feedback on how to make Quickbase Community a better experience? Let's chat!------------------------------

To empower builders and make Quick Base even more accessible we automatically generate a touch-friendly mobile experience for each of your apps. This gives customers the freedom to communicate with all team members, regardless of location, by updating and sharing information in real time from any device. Now builders can direct their users to the Quick Base mobile app, for smartphone and tablets, to easily and securely access those applications from their mobile devices. WeÕre really excited to see users adopting the mobile app to make Quick Base more accessible, and want to get as much feedback from our Community as possible.On Thursday, April 25th, weÕll host a live AMA (Ask Me Anything) featuring two members of esteemed mobile development team Chris Hutchens and Bob Gregor. Chris and Bob will be here from 2-3 p.m. EST to answer any questions you have about the mobile app, other ways we are planning to make Quick Base more accessible to mobile users, or anything e

Hi , I am trying to show a multiselect values with customized bullet color list using rich text field. But unfortunately I caanot , by default it is taking the black bullets not able to do the customization , can someone help me here. I just used the below code, there are 10 values in my multiselct field I want that to be represented with different color of bullets.If(ToText([Workstream])="","",     "<li>" &      SearchAndReplace(ToText([Workstream]),";","</li><li>") &     "</li>" )------------------------------Bhargavi Katepalli------------------------------

Recap Quickbase takes reliability and performance very seriously. We know your applications are used around the world to help do mission critical work. To that end, we are always improving our infrastructure to support continued growth of the platform. In order to support the increased volume of traffic to our RESTful APIs, we began a migration in December to a newer and more scalable infrastructure. The new infrastructure has already improved performance by an average of ~30%, helping customers do more in less time. We want to take a moment to offer some clarity on a few issues we have had so far and how we are rectifying them in order to keep our migration going as smoothly as possible. We make infrastructure changes, security upgrades, and conduct maintenance regularly with minimal disruption and our plan was for this migration to be the same - only improving performance. Extensive automated and manual testing was done in development and pre-production environments, with slow produc

I'm super excited about the new Quickbase Gantt Plugin which has just been released.However, I'm curious if there is an automation / code out there that will automatically add all the required tables and fields to existing apps? I have plenty of apps that I'll be adding this Gantt capability into. Most of them will have a couple of existing tables that will be used in the Gantt, but most will need to be created. I could create them manually, or I might go and write my own code to automatically setup an app with all the required tables.... don't want to do this if it's out there already. The idea is that the code would create all the tables... then I'd just cull the new tables that I don't need because I already have similar tables.Cheers,Matt------------------------------Matt Stephens------------------------------

Hi allAre their any construction companies that have completed this connection?  If you have found this valuable to your company, what is the best process for moving forward and how would you suggest to do so.------------------------------Jessica Matenga------------------------------

Quickbase helps companies to see, connect, and control their most complex projects. Innovative business users are creating Quickbase applications fit for their team’s unique needs. And the result? Business teams are sharing the right information with the right people, at the right time. Over the past twenty years, we’ve seen this story play out many times. But as companies begin to realize the benefits of a unified platform like Quickbase, word gets out. Apps built for individuals spread to teams. Apps originally built for teams are shared with other departments. Each of these expansions builds on prior successes. But it also adds more people, more apps, and more data. How do they manage this increasing load? We’ve created a set of advanced performance tools to solve this problem. Read on to learn how you can ensure your Quickbase apps continue to run quickly as they grow.   Background Quickbase runs on a purpose-built, in-memory database which is optimized for speed and complexi

Hello,I have a field which is rich text and stores the Names in Chinese Language of members. But when I am extracting the report, the values of the field are coming up with some encoding. Below is the screenshot. The column B with Phonetic Name is getting extracted in encoded format. I need the actual value (Chinese format) that is stored in the rich text field when extracted.------------------------------Sam Shah------------------------------

Good morning. In a relationship there is table A(parents) and table B (childs) .Since my beginnings in quickbase I have question... ¿Why does quickbase allow you to delete records from table A regardless of whether it has a related child in table B?Marcelo Benavides Torres------------------------------Marcelo Benavides------------------------------

Workflow automation has taken many forms in Quickbase over the years. It could be a simple email notification, a dynamic form rule, or even a complex script triggered by a webhook. But one thing that’s clear is that workflow automation is only going to increase in importance for customers and use cases of all kinds. To meet those evolving requirements, we have spent the last year growing and improving the workflow automation capabilities of our powerful new Pipelines technology. Now, as we continue to look toward the future, we must also evaluate the role of older and less flexible features like Quickbase Automations. That’s why we will be retiring Quickbase Automations in favor of Pipelines. On June 30, 2022, Automations will reach End of Support.   What End of Support means for you The next step in retiring Automations will come on June 30, 2022, when the feature will reach End of Support. At that time, you will no longer be able to create new automations. This also means that t

Here at Quickbase, we’ve always been focused on removing complexity and confusion from the process of solving business challenges.  That’s why we are excited to announce that this October we are starting the process of introducing an exciting change to the way we align the integration channels in Pipelines with your Plan. The change will consist of two updates that are designed to open the door to a wide range of new connected solutions in Pipelines. There will no longer be a limit to the number of channels that can be enabled and used for each account We’re introducing a new tiered channel access model, bundling our integration and automation capabilities into categories that align with our pricing plan tiers We will be rolling these updates out to accounts in waves throughout the remainder of Q4 '22, and all customers should expect to see the change go live before the end of the year. Eliminating Channel Limits As more and more integrated solutions are created with Pipelines, one p

We are trying to add events but when we do, our recipients' calendars events, added by our outlook channels, aren't displaying the time zone relative to the user just the invite date/time. Anyone have a fix?TIA------------------------------Blake Taylor------------------------------

This plugin allows you to make really dynamic filters, in the same window you can select the table, the fields you want to show and the fields you want to filter.  It is not an external plugin, It must be included in one of your QuickBase APP. ------------------------------Marcelo Benavides------------------------------

Introducing a new partnership between Quickbase and Procore As we continue to invest in our mission to help Quickbase customers see, connect, and control their most complex projects, we are always looking for opportunities to add more valuable capabilities and offerings.  That’s why we are so excited to announce our new partnership with Procore, the industry leading construction management tool that is purpose-built to help construction companies, specialty contractors, and property owners take control of their construction project outcomes.  Working together, Quickbase and Procore unlock innovative business-led solutions for the unique workflow challenges faced by teams during each phase a project, from planning and procurement to construction and closeout. This partnership is made possible by our new Procore channel in Quickbase Pipelines.  We have been developing and testing this new integration between Procore and Quickbase throughout the year, and based on feedback from beta par

Are you Quickbase Expert certified and want to help us improve the Expert exam?Quickbase University is currently refreshing and improving our certification exams and we need Expert-certified volunteers to give us input on the new Expert exam design. By filling out a job task analysis (JTA) survey, (estimated time 30-45 min) you can give vital input to ensure members of our community are assessed on how our platform is actually used – from your perspective. So, if you think that you’d like to help in this way, please review the participation details below and apply to help. We will also happily send thank-you gifts of $25 Amazon gift cards to everyone* who is accepted for the volunteer task and completes the survey. Important: Acceptance to this volunteer task is at the discretion of Quickbase University and there is a maximum number of participants. Once the desired number of volunteers is reached, participation will be closed for further applicants. Participation Details Project: