Development environment

If you are populating Quick Base using APIs from and outside source, I suggest making a copy of you app and populating the COPY app.   I suggest changing the header banner color or the dashboard to remind you in huge letters which is the test copy of the app, as its easy to get confused.

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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
Your Quick Base Coach
http://QuickBaseCoach.com
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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Hi Rita,

Thank you for your post. We just launched a Sandbox feature that allows you create a "test" environment of any application. This test environment is called a Sandbox, and in it you can safely make changes without impacting the production application. For example, you can test any integrations or API work that you're thinking of implementing and it doesn't impact the production app until you review and publish the changes. 

Note that the Quick Base Sandbox is not a local version of Quick Base, but rather a test environment in the cloud just like your other apps.

Learn more here: About Quick Base Sandbox 

Thanks and good luck!

Best,
Chris

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Chris Hutchens
Senior Product Manager
Quick Base
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Hi Rita,

To your question on how to populate QB with external data, one option is to utilize API_AddRecord to populate data into QB.

We are also launching in February a very powerful tool called Quick Base Pipelines. Pipelines will be a full set of integration capabilities built directly into Quick Base. Included will be the ability to integrate with a few other platforms on which you can build custom forms.

Hope that helps, and you're in great hands with other expert builders in the QB community who might be able to provide more detailed answers to your specific situation.

Best,
Chris​

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Chris Hutchens
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