Troubleshooting form rules

Form rule issues and warnings alert you to poor-performing form rules that could prevent you from saving your form or cause your form to behave incorrectly.

Review form rules with issues and warnings

You can review your form rules for issues and warnings in two ways. 

1. You can review the Form rules toggle in the page bar. If you have unsaved rules, rules with issues, or rules with warnings you will see an icon. Clicking the Form rules toggle will take you to your form rule list where you can resolve the issue.
2. You can navigate to your form rules list to see if your rules have any issue or warning indicators in the Status column.

Performance issues and warnings

To ensure the protection of all apps on our platform, Quickbase checks if your form rules may adversely impact performance. If we detect that rules may run inefficiently, you'll see an error message:

• We found form rules that are causing you to reach 80% or more of your performance limit. Resolve the performance issues or turn off rules with performance issues and warnings.

You will not be able to save your form until you have edited your rules to improve the efficiency or deactivated rules with performance issues and warnings.

We continue to check for performance when users interact with the form. In cases where rules exceed Quickbase algorithms, we will display a message:

• Resolve performance issues or turn off rules with issues to save

Optimizing performance

Optimizing your app's performance essential to giving you and your users the best experience. Here are some helpful tips:

• Reduce the records in the first condition as much as possible to improve query speed, as conditions are processed sequentially.
• Avoid using derived fields unless necessary. Derived fields require additional queries, permission checks, and calculations before evaluation.
• Use exact matches whenever possible as "is equal to" matching operator will be quicker than using "contains."

You can learn more about how you can optimize your app performance in our Performance optimizer help article.