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EmpowerPro 2025 brought the heat with new ideas, big product reveals, and tons of inspiration. From AI that builds apps out of messy spreadsheets t...
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At this year’s Empower Pro, we explored a topic that’s core to every Quickbase customer — how to scale with control and confidence. As organizations embrace no-code and AI-driven app development, gov...
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What's New In FastField
Hey Qrew! What an incredible couple of days we had at Empower Pro! Thanks to everyone who joined us! (And if you missed it, you can still tune in on demand here!) During the event, we announced that FastField is launching the Pro Plan with three exciting new features and as of yesterday, they’re officially live! If you’re new to learning about FastField, it’s our mobile data collection platform within the Quickbase family, and it just got a major upgrade. On October 13, 2025, FastField rolled out three powerful new features: Task Scheduler, AI Workflow, and Label Scanner OCR. Each one is designed to help field teams work smarter, faster, and with fewer errors. These tools are part of the brand-new Pro Plan, giving operations leaders next-level ways to automate tasks, cut down on mistakes, and keep every project running smoothly. What is FastField? FastField is a mobile-first platform that lets teams replace paper and spreadsheets with dynamic digital forms. With FastField, your teams in the field can: Capture rich data (photos, video, audio, QR/barcode scans) even offline. Dispatch and assign forms to the right people at the right time. Automate workflows and route data back into Quickbase or other systems. Reduce errors and improve compliance with structured, validated submissions. For Quickbase customers, FastField is the perfect way to extend your applications into the field, connecting frontline teams directly with your business processes. What’s New in the Pro Plan? The new FastField Pro Plan brings advanced automation and AI to the platform, giving growing teams the tools to scale operations with confidence. Here’s what just released: Task Scheduler Plan and assign jobs in advance, or set recurring tasks like inspections and maintenance. Schedule one-time and recurring tasks and eliminate last-minute coordination headaches. Real-time visibility into upcoming and overdue tasks to boost accountability. Automated recurring schedules and keep teams in sync. AI Workflow Turn data into action with custom AI-driven automations based on normal language prompts. Route form submissions automatically. Trigger alerts, assign follow-ups, and generate reports without manual setup. Flag anomalies and escalate urgent items instantly. Label Scanner OCR Capture data from labels like model, part and serial numbers with a quick scan. Auto-fill forms in seconds, reducing manual typing errors. Speed up inventory, asset management, and compliance reporting. Improve accuracy for data that’s critical in the field. Together, these features mean less manual work, fewer mistakes, and faster response times, so your teams can focus on the job, not the paperwork. Should you subscribe to Pro? The Pro Plan includes everything in the Core Plan plus these new AI and automation features, premium integrations, and advanced reporting. It’s designed for companies with growing field operations who need to scale without adding overhead. Save time with automation – Dispatch jobs in bulk, pre-fill data, and schedule recurring work. Get more accurate data – Scan, validate, and route submissions with fewer errors. Integrate your tech stack – Connect FastField seamlessly to Quickbase, ERP, and CRM systems. Empower your teams – Give field workers the tools to move faster and stay compliant. Want to try out the new features? You can start a free, 14-day FastField trial now! Every trial includes full access to Pro Plan features, so you can test out Task Scheduler, AI Workflow, and Label Scanner OCR right away. Start your FastField Trial Here! Already a FastField user and want to upgrade to Pro? Contact your account executive! FastField is built to help you connect your Quickbase apps with your frontline teams. With the new Pro Plan, you’ll unlock automation and AI tools that streamline operations, reduce errors, and keep your projects moving. We’re so excited to see how you’ll use these new FastField features to make your field operations even stronger. Have a favorite feature already? We’d love to hear about it! Share your experience here in the Qrew Community!Scaling with Control & Confidence
At this year’s Empower Pro, we explored a topic that’s core to every Quickbase customer — how to scale with control and confidence. As organizations embrace no-code and AI-driven app development, governance is no longer optional; it’s the foundation that keeps innovation safe, compliant, and sustainable. Our session, Scaling with Control & Confidence, was led by Lyla Rozelle, Rayna Stoycheva, and Ventsislav Tasev. They unpacked the newest tools and upcoming features designed to help admins and builders collaborate, move faster, and stay in control. Why Governance Matters in the Age of AI No-code platforms have unlocked creativity across business lines, but they’ve also blurred the line between IT and operations. Builders crave freedom to experiment; admins need assurance that what’s built can scale securely. Governance is the bridge between those worlds — ensuring builders can innovate with confidence while admins can trust that the environment is safe. Three industry trends make this balance more important than ever: AI-driven development is accelerating app creation — and the risks that come with it. Distributed workforces are empowering citizen developers across every department. Enterprise-scale adoption means mission-critical systems are now built on no-code. Quickbase’s governance strategy rests on three pillars: Discover, Protect, and Control. Here’s what’s new across each one. Discover: Seeing Your Account and Apps Clearly A Revamped Account Summary Managing an account shouldn’t require detective work. The new Account Summary page gives realm and account admins a single, self-serve view of: Contract details and plan limits Usage data from Platform Analytics Admin contacts and support links Now you can track usage, drill into app details, and explore new features — all from one dashboard. It’s cleaner, faster, and designed for self-service. AI App Intelligence (Beta) Ever inherited an app and thought, “What does this even do?” AI App Intelligence answers that question in seconds. It scans your app and summarizes its purpose, key tables, roles, and most-used fields — perfect for new builders or anyone auditing an existing app. Paired with Visual Builder, it gives you a living blueprint of your app without digging into every setting. This feature is currently in open beta for Business and Enterprise plans. Protect: Safeguard Data Without Slowing Innovation Enterprise Malware Scanner As Quickbase apps handle more external documents — bids, contracts, vendor uploads — protecting that data becomes mission-critical. Our new Malware Scanner, powered by Amazon GuardDuty, scans uploaded files automatically via Pipelines. You can configure actions based on scan results: Restrict downloads of suspicious files Delete infected attachments Notify admins or security teams It’s quick to implement, easy to customize, and available now on the Enterprise plan. Control: Manage Access and Deploy Changes with Confidence REST APIs for App Access Managing who gets access to what just got easier. With new REST API endpoints, admins can: Add, update, or remove users, user groups, and email domains (trustees) programmatically Retrieve all app roles automatically These APIs make it possible to integrate Quickbase with your HR or identity systems — ensuring access changes sync instantly when people join, move, or leave. Governance Core Apps & Admin Console Connected tables For admins who want a single command center, the Governance Core Apps (available in the Exchange) provide out-of-the-box dashboards and workflows powered by Admin Console Connected (ACC) tables. New upcoming tables — User Groups/Email Domains and Group Access — make it even easier to spot external domains and track which apps groups can access. Once connected, these apps turn governance data into action. Application Lifecycle Management: Native and Intuitive Under the hood, our ALM capabilities are powered by Quickbase Language (QBL) — the foundation for all ALM workflows. QBL defines your app’s schema in a structured, portable format, enabling accurate deployments between environments. The latest version, v0.12, now covers nearly every solution component, including apps, tables, fields, reports, charts, dashboards, pipelines, and connected tables — with support for emails, additional pipeline channels, and document generation coming soon. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is evolving from a complex setup into a native experience built in experience right into Quickbase. With the upcoming ALM UX, you’ll be able to: Create Dev/Test/Prod environments Deploy changes with version control and approvals Review a full deployment history with audit trails The first beta version is focused on more experienced builders, with plans to make it even easier for nontechnical users. Availability: Business plan: Dev + Prod environments for smaller solutions. Enterprise plan: Adds a test environment, approvals, extended history, and solution APIs. Scaling Safely, Building Boldly Governance isn’t about restriction — it’s about enabling innovation without fear. From AI-powered insights to automated protection and native deployment workflows, these updates make it easier than ever to build fast while staying in control. Together, these innovations embody Quickbase’s belief for proper governance: Builders can move faster. Admins can breathe easier. And your organization can scale with confidence. Interested in exploring these features or joining a beta? Reach out to your Quickbase account team or visit the Community for follow-up resources from Empower Pro 2025.Open beta for grid reports has begun!
We are happy to announce that our new grid reports are now available in open beta for all customers starting today, October 7. Read on to learn about how they can boost your team’s impact, and how you can try out the new experience now. Background At Quickbase, we never stop thinking about how we can better support your users. Because your team is the engine that helps your business grow and out-innovate your competition. And this has never been more urgent than it is today, when so many companies are being asked to do more with less. At the center of your everyday Quickbase experience is table reports. We understand that the need to quickly look up or review operational data is constant. And we have heard from many of you about the limitations of table reports, and the grid edit view that comes along with it. We heard about workers being slowed down, and the frustration many are feeling as they toggle back and forth between pages just to edit data. We heard that using grid edit in 2025 feels unintuitive. And we heard about performance slowdowns in some apps as well. That’s why we’re introducing grid reports. Available to all today as a beta feature, this marks a major milestone in the Quickbase experience, providing a more modern and intuitive way of viewing and entering data. Grid reports are the successor to both the table report and the grid edit features in Quickbase. It combines the familiarity and ease of a spreadsheet with the power of our operational platform. For example, with grid reports, all it takes to kick off a pipeline is double-clicking a cell, typing a new value, and hitting save – all done without leaving your report. We have turbocharged the performance of grid reports as well. Finally, for those who have been hesitant to make the jump to our newest drag-and-drop form building experience, I’m happy to say that grid reports are supported there as well – allowing quick edits of child records like you have on a legacy form. Don’t let them tell you that you have to choose between flexibility and power. Because with Quickbase, you really can enjoy the best of both worlds. Business insights, at your fingertips Control the height of your rows. And don’t worry, we’ll remember your choice. This setting impacts how the current report displays for you only. That way, each user can pick a different height as they please. App builders can also set a default height that best fits each report. Control the width of your columns. Like row heights, we will remember your choice and this setting only impacts how the current report displays for you. Filter data on-the-fly. And if you want to update the report for all users, click the … icon on the right side and save the report. Quicker edits, fewer clicks Edit data without leaving the report, simply by double-clicking. Once you’re done, hit Save. Fill down to update many records, in record time. Once you’re done, hit Save. On forms and dashboards too You can also add grid reports to your forms and dashboards, so your team can make quick edits without clicking away to another page. Using a legacy form or dashboard? You can create a new one, to take advantage of grid reports. (When making a new form or dashboard, it will use the latest version of each respective feature by default.) Try it out today Starting today, new apps you create will default to using grid reports. And app administrators can turn on grid reports for existing apps today as well. Open App Settings, then App Properties, and scroll down to find the new option under Advanced Settings. You can also give your app’s users the option to go back to the legacy table report if needed. If you set this to Yes, your users will be able to toggle between grid reports and the legacy table report which previously appeared with the “New experience” for table reports toggled off. What’s next for grid reports? We will be actively monitoring the impact of our new grid reports across the customer base and fixing any bugs as we find them. Stay tuned to our product release notes for details on when we will default all table reports to the new grid report experience. How are we doing? Have an idea for making grid reports better? We want to hear from you! Click the ? icon, then click Give feedback. Or you can open a support case to report a bug or get assistance.
Replacement for "Copy Parent & Child Records" Button Creator?
In App Settings -> App Management, there's an option to create a button to add to forms to "Copy Parent & Child Records." However, the buttons created by this process are powered by Javascript, which I was under the impression was no longer really supported. Is there another option for recursively copying a parent record and any related child records (and child of child records)? Or can this button generator still be trusted despite the JS?March 2025 Pipelines Qrew Meet Up Recap & What to look forward to in April
Hello Pipelines Qrew, Thank you to all who were able to attend the Pipelines Qrew Meet Up on Wednesday. Here’s what we discussed: James Malone and Matthew Tillinghast from Juiced Technologies shared a pipeline solution that entailed creating a master app that consolidates all the timecard records, allowing for better data management and reporting for their customer. James went through details of the pipeline process, including handling record creation, updates, and deletions. He discussed the challenges they faced, such as dealing with unique field constraints, mapping field names across different applications, as well a certain error message. James used placeholder parameters in the pipeline call definitions to easily accommodate new data requirements from different source apps and found callable pipelines to be very helpful in making this solution scalable across the 25 source apps. We had lots of comments and great questions that were addressed in the meeting. Missed the meeting? Here’s the link to the recording. Our next Pipelines Qrew Meet Up will be on Wednesday April 16 th at 12pm EST. The agenda is nearly finalized. I’m hoping the Pipelines product team will be available to answer questions about new features that will officially go live at Empower and include a customer use case from our friends from Accenture. Thank you and have a great weekend! Best regards,November Pipelines Qrew Meet Up Recap
Hello Pipelines Qrew! Thank you all who were able to attend Wednesday’s Pipeline Qrew Meet Up. Here’s a recap of what happened: 1) Brittany Scheid from Simitree Healthcare Consulting shared her Pipelines Use case on how she uses Pipelines to automate the workflow of onboarding and provisioning employees/contractors. She went into detail and shared tips on how her workflow was planned and proceeded to break it down how she set up her Pipeline which included testable steps along the way. 2) To see more of Brittany’s workflow as well as tips she shared, I have attached a PDF of her presentation along with the chat file from the meeting. 3) During the call there were a lot of great resources shared that helped Brittany with creating and managing her Pipeline. Quickbase API GUIDE Jinja Ninja with Ryan Pflederer Become a Jinja Ninja E-Course in Quickbase University User Status Overview Gmail + feature to test multiple users A special thank you to all who shared resources above and tips in the chat! 4) Missed the call or want to relisten to the recording? Click the link below. No password required! https://quickbase.zoom.us/rec/share/VWzTQ-DdJTrREIaBqbTsNM562P9Xu3BkFzX3ll_wPRL9cI94zrSqSo3LY8WdF2MR.tF806pvVBgm3zn4Q?startTime=1731516805000 Our next Pipelines Qrew Meet up is on Wednesday December 18 th ! Tammie King has volunteered to share her use case our last Qrew Meet Up of the year, so I’ll update everyone as soon as we finalize the agenda. Invites will be shared from Zoom soon. Thank you all for a great meet up!
Failed to check for record conflicts (New Forms)
I updated a form to the new version, and some users keep getting this error when trying to edit and save. I was able to reproduce it, but I can't find any reason for it. I've carefully gone over all of the form rules and there don't seem to be any conflicts. Has anyone run into this and successfully solved it?
