QuickBase Straight Up

Users of Internet Explorer 8 may have noticed a retina-rattling flickering effect when using QuickBase. Well, fear not! There is an easy way to address this problem until Intuit resolves this compatibility issue. IE8 includes a feature called Compatibility View, which simulates an older version of the browser. Compatibility View is specific to individual websites, so using this feature will not affect the rest of your web browsing experience.
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To turn on Compatibility View, first navigate to QuickBase.com. Then, click the Compatibility View button, which is located on the right side of IE8’s toolbar (it’s the torn page icon between the address bar and the refresh button). With this activated, QuickBase should return to normal. However, it might take a few extra hours for your headache to go away.

If you have a report with custom filtering criteria, then you may have experienced frustration with QuickBase’s terse and unhelpful displaying of this information. QuickBase will show the first term of your filtering criteria in the blue bar above the report, followed by “AND…” It’s a suspense-building technique better left to soap opera cliffhangers than web database management software.
 
There’s no perfect fix for this limitation, but there is one way to get around it. Select “Print” from the mini-toolbar on the report. Leave the default option, “Print the report as a table.” Then, on the following screen, check the box labeled “include filtering criteria.” Click continue, and if a print window pops up, just cancel out of it. The window you’re left with should display your report with the full filtering criteria displayed just above it. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to share this more informative report, but if you’re desperate for a way to show your filter criteria then it may be just what you’re looking for!

You’ve probably never thought of typing the date as a particularly time-consuming activity, but if you create or modify a large number of records on a daily basis, then you’ve probably spent much more time than you realize scanning the calendar popup for the little highlighted box that represents today’s date. Lucky for you, there’s a little-known shortcut that will allow you to cut this minor hassle out of your daily life. Simply enter the date field and press the letter “t,” and QuickBase will insert today’s date for you. Or if it is a date/time field, press “n” (for “now”) and QuickBase will enter the current date and time. Maybe not mind-blowing, but hopefully it will make your daily life a little bit easier.