Feature requests from a newish user

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Good morning all!I'll start by saying if there is somewhere better to put feature requests, I will happily submit this through a formal channel!I have been building out a new system on Quickbase and hit a few pain points that I thought I would mention in case it hasn't been brought up before!

Select fields being limited to 100 items. This limit seems arbitrary, as I am able to use a pipeline to fetch data, write it to a table, and use that table data as the source for a select field. What the limit does do, however, is it make it so that I cannot make changes to the field without the "only 100 items allowed" error. This forces me to delete data from the table, make changes to the field, then rerun a pipeline. I'm not sure of the practical reason for limiting to 100, but I would hope to see this removed. To give a practical use-case, we have a field where we allow our users to select which facilities their report is in reference to, allowing selection from a list of facilities. We currently have 147 facilities.
Dynamic form rules layout is pretty hard to parse in my opinion. Using new lines to structure the various parts of the rule to make it more readable (like code indentation) I think could help. Additionally, allowing resizing of the dynamic rules list portion could help!

These are the only pain points I've found myself having so far. Outside of that, I'm impressed by how intuitive and powerful this system is. My thanks to the development team for the hard work!------------------------------Josh Payette------------------------------

MarkShnierYou · Answer

I suggest making a table of facilities with the Key field set to Facility Name a relationship to select a to choose the facility. You can then use the existing field to build the relationship to preserve the existing data. The record picking when you have such a drop down field is excellent as you can enter small part of the words for the choices and the drop down will pretty instantly filter down.

So I think that the QuickBase developers might argue that you were trying to misuse a multiple choice field when you're trying to get more than 100 choices. They are never likely to expand that limit.

I'm not quite sure what you were doing with the pipeline but using this method you may have to have your pipeline add additional records to the facilities table.

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Mark Shnier (YQC)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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