Quickbase March 2023 release notes

3.26.23

Contents

• New
• Enhancements
• Beta opportunities
• What’s fixed in Quickbase

New

Restrict outside realms from making Quickbase Sync connections

Security-sensitive realm admins on Enterprise plans can more effectively control access to their data by preventing other realms from making Quickbase Sync connections to apps in their own realm. To restrict Quickbase Sync connections, click the Policies page in the Admin Console. You can disallow all outside realms from making a connection, or you can allow connections from a specified list of outside realms. Learn more in our Security Policies help article.

Enhancements

Pipelines now trigger up to 5x faster

Over the last few months, we’ve been working on new behind-the-scenes architecture to power speed and reliability improvements that customer wanted in the Pipelines area of Quickbase. As of March 1st, all customers are now backed by this new architecture. In the chart below you can see that “typical” pipeline workloads and “busy” pipeline workloads are now firing 5.6x faster and 3.5x faster than before (respectively).

• A “typical” pipeline workload is a generalization used to describe pipelines with simple structures. Most pipelines fall into this category
• A “busy” pipeline workload is a generalization used to describe pipelines that fire frequently or contain complex looping logic within.

If you’re interested in deeper details and explanations on all the Pipelines speed improvements, please be on the lookout for an upcoming Community blog post!

Reliability improvements in Pipelines 

Throughout the first three months of 2023, Quickbase steadily increased the outbound-webhook rate limits from 20, to 50, per second per app. This increased rate limit now covers 99.99% of activity that we’ve seen throughout 2023.

Also, there is now an error notification sent to the pipeline owner if a pipeline is attempting to be triggered by a Quickbase app that exceeds this outbound-webhook rate limit.

Microsoft Outlook channel in Pipelines: Reply to email thread

New functionality of the Outlook channel that allows the user to reply to an email thread.

Increase the limit for uploading file attachments in OneDrive and SharePoint

The limit for uploading file attachments is now increased from 30MB to 100MB which allows users to upload even larger files.

Dashboard performance improvements

Earlier this month, we released changes to improve the initial time it takes a dashboard to load. Dashboard tabs that use a smaller number of distinct widget types will see the largest impact. Builders will also notice improvements in the time it takes to lock and unlock a dashboard for editing.

Creating report subscriptions for table reports

In the March release, we're excited to bring more functionality to our table reports. You can now create subscriptions for table reports directly from the More menu of a standalone report. To set it up, simply choose 'New subscription' and you'll be redirected to the Notification center. Learn more in Create a report subscription. 

Note: Previously, this feature was available only in the legacy version of table reports. With the March release, it will also be available in the default version of table reports.

Change to embedded report links across apps

We’re continuing our efforts to help app builders scale effectively on Quickbase by changing the behavior of email notifications when a form is sent with an embedded report originating from a different app without an explicitly-defined relationship. Now, if the form is configured to include an embedded report directly, it will always be sent with the email notification. A few weeks ago, we changed the behavior so that:

• When the embedded report on the form is part of an explicitly-defined cross-application relationship, there are no changes.
• When the report is embedded on a form within the same app, there are no changes.
• When the report is not part of a cross-application relationship, but does come from another application, the parent form displays a link to the report.

With this release, embedded reports from different apps will scale more effectively. This change will stop embedded reports from causing dependency in the Quickbase infrastructure. Apps with a defined cross-application relationship will still share resources.

User tokens and app tokens

For performance reasons, revocations to apptokens or usertokens may take up to 5 minutes to propagate.

Create and manage custom searches with the Sensitive Data Scanner

The Sensitive Data Scanner will now allow account admins to customize their scans to fit the way each organization works by allowing them to manage scan configuration and set custom rules. Custom rules would enable admins to create their unique scan patterns and search for any data types using regular expressions. Scan configurations will allow them to save and re-use for search sets of predefined and user-build custom scan rules.

With the improved scanner you will be able to create and manage your scans easily by selecting your own scan thresholds, set custom rules and configurations altered based on your needs and then scan based on the selection

Additionally, you will have the opportunity to scan using the default scans or your custom configuration for each of your apps.

For more information on how to use the Custom search see Using custom search in Sensitive Data Scanner.

On top of that, you can now access Table ID to view the table, where sensitive data was found by simply clicking on the Table ID.

Read more information Sensitive Data Scanner.

Beta opportunities

Announcing Forms Beta

This month we’re continuing our journey in modernizing Quickbase with a beta program for the latest version of forms. The new version of forms will benefit builders of all skill levels with a drag and drop, WYSIWYG building experience.. We will be activating the feature for customers in waves. This will allow us to monitor performance, identify bugs, and gather feedback that will inform our roadmap on the way to General Availability later this year.

You can read more about the form designer in our announcement post on Quickbase Community (link incoming). Interested customers can join the waitlist for the beta program by signing up in our registration app.

We’re looking forward to partnering with our awesome community of builders to make this next iteration of form building in Quickbase as powerful as the apps you create. We can’t wait to see what you make.

What’s fixed in Quickbase