Choose your own complexity
October 05, 2016
Choose your own complexity
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with QuickBase
We use Quickbase for our portfolio management. We have built out a project management app to track a number of project metrics and run a variety of reports.
Pros
- Highly customizable.
- The ability to have multiple related tables is very helpful. This allows you to have multiple records from one table linked to another table.
- The ability to use formulas in custom fields is very powerful. Sometimes this takes some advanced knowledge and programming experience, but it really helps extend the functionality of the tool.
Cons
- It would be great to be able to move records in a table up and down from a report view. I would like to be able to sort the report by rank without having to manually update a custom field on each project.
- I would like to be able to execute a query based on the historical value of a custom field. For example, to look for a record that was in a specified state last week, but is no longer in that state.
- It would be nice to be able to edit a report inline without having to use grid edit. For example, instead of opening up edit to all fields in the report (current grid edit function) allow editing on a single field for a single record.
- I would like to be able to set custom column widths in a report. Also fields should be able to wrap based on my selected column widths.
Other applications I have used have a more specific focus and are designed to use almost out of the box with less customization. Quickbase provides more customizability than some of the other apps I have used or evaluated, but there is definitely more setup and maintenance.
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