Quickbase July 2021 Release Notes

Contents

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

Enhancements

My Pipelines page is generally available

We're excited to announce that on July 15, the new My Pipelines page becomes the default view for all Quickbase Pipelines users. You can use the toggle at the top of the page to switch back to the old My Pipelines page. For more information, see the About the My pipelines help page.

Here are some highlights:

• Performance — We built the new My Pipelines page with performance and speed in mind to accommodate every builder — even those with many pipelines.

• View — The page features a streamlined interface with relevant attributes for each pipeline. Access more information about your channels in the side panel, including run time, status, and context menus.
  

• Filter, Search, and Sort — Filter on pre-existing or custom-created and attributed tags for each pipeline and narrow your search with AND based on names, channels, and tags. Sort your pipelines with the On/Off toggle and select ascending, descending, or the last modified pipeline date.
  

• Side panel: Basic information — Review pipeline details in the side panel in the Basic info and Statistics tabs. Find and edit information on name, description, tags, pipeline ID, date created, channels used, schedule and next run time, last run date, and step runs. We’ll add more new insights and functionality to this area soon.
  

• Side panel: Usage stats — Click the pie chart in the side panel to access usage statistics on when the pipeline was last triggered and the number of billable and total step runs in the last 30 days. An indicator shows how usage in the last 30 days compares to the previous 30 days.
  

• Error counts — View the error count for the past seven days for immediate insight on performance and opportunities for optimization.
  

Better scheduling in Pipelines

We’ve improved your experience and added new and more sophisticated options for scheduling pipelines, making it possible for you to:

• Set up schedules to run on specific and multiple days in the week, multiple days in the month, or the last day of the month.
  

• Use CRON (Advanced) scheduling for even more flexibility. Now, you can schedule a pipeline using a CRON expression. Learn more about this scheduling feature in our help center or read about CRON scheduling with the Crontab guru.
  

You can also convert scheduled automations to pipelines to take advantage of better scheduling.

Note: Currently, some of these enhancements are only available on the new My Pipelines page, but we’ll add them to the Pipelines Builder soon.

Pipelines migration tool enhancements

You can move more types of automations to Pipelines, including:

• Scheduled automations

• Automations that have references to more than one app

• Automations that have references to an old record:
  

Migrate again

We are also introducing the ability to migrate again, which you can use to regenerate your pipelines even after migration. This helps if you have deleted or edited a pipeline that was previously migrated:

Learn more in our automation migration help article.

Pipelines Jinja enhancements

Now you can use the following cryptographic functions in Pipelines (MD5, SHA1, SHA 224, SHA 256, SHA 384, SHA 512) in Jinja. For more information, see About Jinja in our help center.

Use new summary reports in charts

Now you can access advanced summary report formulas, which lets you use a new type of calculation in summary reports, in charts.

This feature performs calculations on a set of aggregate data by summing the data set, then calculating an average. This is possible through a new formula function that builders can integrate into a report formula, and solves a longstanding issue often called the "average of averages problem".

For more information, check out our Community Post about summary reports.

Improved scrolling on new table report style

With a platform as diverse as Quickbase, where some apps have a few hundred records, and others have several million, it’s challenging to optimize behaviors for all users.

With this in mind, we’ve improved the new table report style scrolling experience, minimizing how often you experience a loading state and ensuring scalability for large reports. Quickbase now loads in records earlier in your scrolling process and dynamically adjusts the number of records that load in based on the number of columns in the report.

New dashboard updates

Create new records

Builders can use dashboard buttons to create records in any of their Quickbase apps. To get started, add a new button widget to a dashboard and under Action to take when clicking button, select Create new record.

Navigate between reports when widgets are expanded

Use the new Jump To menu when viewing an expanded version of a widget to quickly view another report, rich text, or web page widget anywhere on the dashboard:

Update to table permissions for Everyone on the Internet (EOTI)

Quickbase’s Everyone on the Internet (EOTI) feature provides public access to certain apps, helping collect data like product surveys or support tickets. When builders add a new table to an app, existing roles may default to have viewing access for all its records. This includes the EOTI role, if the app includes one.

This change helps optimize security for Quickbase’s largest and most critical deployments with sensitive data. Read more about governing EOTI in our help center.

We streamlined this process so you can configure your app easily and securely. In any new tables, you create after July 18, 2021, any role that is assigned to EOTI can’t add, edit, or view any records. If the EOTI role needs to view records on that table, you can manually grant it the correct permissions.

Over the next few weeks, Quickbase will also begin displaying the following message to app admins on the settings pages for existing tables that have the EOTI role turned on, in case admins want to adjust the permissions on those tables:

Note: If you’re not sure which role is being used for EOTI, click Users and search for everyone. In the example below, the app has been shared with “Everyone on the Internet” using a role called “Public Access”.

Updated look and feel for Quickbase mobile app

With this release, both the Quickbase Android app and iOS app now reflect Quickbase's new brand identity and color palette, providing a more cohesive experience for users.

Beta opportunities

What’s fixed in Quickbase

We continue to focus on quality. Below are the issues we fixed this month.

Note: Platform security, billing changes, back-end tooling, and performance are all ongoing commitments. Each release may include changes in these areas.