Name: Feature Focus: Q1 in Review
Uploaded: 2025-04-10T18:45:52.598Z
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Description: Feature Focus: Q1 in Review

Transcript for "Feature Focus: Q1 in Review": Hi, everybody, and welcome to our, feature focused today focused on our recent quick based launch that went live at Empower. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, depending on where you are joining us. So for today's feature focus, it's a little bit different from normal. We're not just gonna focus on a specific release or an individual set of part of the product. What we're really gonna focus on is at Empower last week in New Orleans, During our keynotes, we talked about a lot of exciting things coming to Quickbase plus things that had already launched. We're gonna focus today really strongly on what has actually come out so that you can use it as, builders and admins today. We are gonna do a little preview of some of the stuff you should definitely make sure you catch up on in our getting start in our, keynote as well as some of the other content that we have. So the real focus today is just how can we help you take advantage of a lot of the new features that exist for builders and admins that you can get the most out of your quick base, in every day. And so my number one thing I'm gonna have to do, I've already kind of gave it a shout out, but I'll give it another one, is that last week, we had Empower twenty five. For those of you who aren't familiar with Empower, it is our yearly user conference. In the past, we've done it digitally. This year, we were actually able to bring back doing it live again for the first time in five years. Don't worry if you weren't able to visit or if you missed the live stream, we ended the keynotes. They are now available on demand. If you go into the little doc section in upper right hand corner just above the chat, you can actually find them, empower keynotes on demand. It captured both our major keynote with Ed, our CEO, and our product team where they gave a bunch of insight into the stuff that's coming to Quickbase as well as things that are already live. And then the second one was with Kelly, who is, the new head of our customer success or customer experience organization, who talked a lot about what is the experience like for folks who are Quickbase customers, and what are the things we're trying to do to make that customer experience even better. So diving into sort of, like, as a builder, as an admin, you may be asking, like, what's in there for me? What are the things that I can be excited about from Empower that I should make sure I catch up on? And I would say that, like, we have some awesome things coming soon that are really gonna change the way you think about using Quickbase at, for many people all throughout. First off is spreadsheet import, then we have, which is basically gonna be a new way for you to take your existing spreadsheets. And you might have used import today where you can import a spreadsheet to update now. This is about updating your spreadsheet, however messy it might be, however many tabs and tables that might contain or tabs and the data it might contain, and turning it into an entire application with the help of, Quickbase AI. You can find that if you watch the keynote, if you'd like to jump ahead to the section that you're interested in at, the one zero two time mark. Then there's also our grid reports. What this is is it's going to be a radical update to the way that reports work so that you can think about using these reports like your the spreadsheets you're familiar with. This is gonna be a huge win for those of us who are in Quickbase every day as admins, but also for your end users because they're gonna find that Quickbase is going to work a lot more how they expect it to work from having used spreadsheets out in the world before. We're trying to make sure that, like, we marry the power of Quickbase with a little bit of the familiarity of the tools you use every day. And then lastly is fast field OCR. So OCR is a really fancy way of saying, wouldn't it be great if I could take a picture of something and from that picture pull the data out? And so what Fast Field OCR does is basically helps you to think about how could you pull data while you're out in the field right from your phone with a snap of a picture rather than having to enter it all by yourself. And I would say, like, those are the three things if you don't feel like you have the time to watch the rest of the keynote, but you're excited about you wanna know more about exciting things coming to Quickbase, watch those things. And to kinda go into detail, like, like I said, spreadsheet import, think about it as taking your spreadsheet full of all the data you are on today and thinking, oh, gosh. It would be really daunting for me to rebuild this as a Quickbase app because I'm so busy on a day to day. This is gonna take me a while. This can help you jump start that process. You take your spreadsheet, dump it into Quickbase, do the with the with the AI import spreadsheet, and basically let it help you build dashboards, forms, formulas, relationships, tables. It and then gives you basically its best guess for what your app should look like, meaning that you can skip so much of the early building and get right to customizing, making the right things, making things correct in your app, adding the right users, getting them excited. It's really here to help you crunch down how much time you're spending on that initial build so you can get your first app started faster, or you can get your next app started even if you didn't feel like you had the time yet. I would definitely recommend checking that out. It's at the one zero two mark, which was one hour and two minutes in, and it'll be coming in summer, which I misspelled on the slide, so please ignore that. Twenty twenty five. And then next would be grid reports. So like I mentioned, this is really about how our table reports look and feel for you. This is a brand new experience way more aligned to spreadsheets where you can do inline editing, autofill, use keyboard shortcuts, pin rows. The way we do filtering has radically changed to make it so it really works a lot more intuitively with a lot more power. And that is coming, soon, not summer of twenty twenty five. That is actually going to be coming I would say we we're gonna do a whole AI focused, feature focused next month in May. Maybe it's coming close to that. I I can't give exact dates, but it it might be coming really soon. And then that's sort of just like if you can't catch anything else from the keynotes that empower, make sure you catch those. Those are really awesome. And like I said, you can either find that if you just look in the docs in the upper right hand corner, there's an option for seeing where they are. Or if you just click Google Quickbase, empower, it'll be the new landing page for Quickbase empower will be those keynotes, and you can catch up on all the stuff you missed. Now we can pivot away from the things you can catch up on or are coming soon and are exciting, and we can get into some of the stuff that you could be using today, either live or as beta opportunities that you can experience. And first, we're gonna start with mobile. Thinking about how you connect and collect all that awesome data whether you're out and about and make use of it. And so first, this is a long time coming that a lot of people have act have asked for. Coming this month to become generally available, we are gonna now have new forms supported on Quickbase mobile. So if you and your team make use of the Quickbase mobile app, you may have realized that when new forms came out, you weren't able to use those new forms on your app yet. We're getting rid of that limitation. This this month, the goal is to make sure that we give you a fresh, modern design that looks like the new forms that you're building, kind of remove one of the last barriers many people have experienced of being able to use new forms everywhere, and allow your business users to just find their data easier and faster. It's gonna feel like the experience you have when you're signed on to the computer and when you're signed into the app are much closer together. Remove the need to keep around a legacy form just so that you can use it and in your mobile app. There's a beta open now still, so some of you might already be in it, but the big the big hunch will be coming so you can just simplify your mobile experience. It's something that I think a lot of us have been waiting for. And kind of on the same strain, in the last year, if you've been around group based, you've probably heard about Fast Field. And so what Fast Field is is it's a whole, it's basically another company that joined us and became part of Quickbase, and they brought the opportunity for folks who are really focused on field use to get way more out of Quickbase. You can basically have dynamic manual mobile forms that can help you meet tons of different field use cases, especially these really common inspections and audits, work order surveys, safety checkpoints. They've been part of the Quickbase family for a while now, and they've been able to help people when it comes to thinking about offline data connection, digital signatures, geotagging, basically tons of offers things that we're always asked for from Quickbase mobile. These are for I have folks out in the field. They need to prioritize getting work done and capturing data, and I don't want it to be on a physical form shoved into the bottom of the pile of forms that they have, and it takes a couple it takes a day or two to get back to the office, and then who knows when someone will actually submit it. This is to close the gap on all that and make it so that they can do it with their phone, like we're all familiar with doing now, submit some data, go back to work. And, not just to have did that come out last year, but with this launch, we did a lot to make Fast Field more accessible and helpful to folks in the field. One of the biggest things being, capturing data rapidly with OCR. There's a great demo that is on the keynote. That was the time stamp that I gave. I would definitely recommend going and watching it because they probably do a better job of of showing it off than I will. But, essentially, the easiest thing to imagine is that you're gonna take your phone, you're gonna scan a label or take take a photo of something, maybe a a label on the side of a machine, maybe a piece of paper that you've written some information down on. It is going to pull out anything that it can recognize as text. You're gonna map it to the specific fields in your fast field form, and it is going to pull that data in so that you don't have to do that thing where you ask somebody else to read a serial number off for you and you have to enter it in your phone and you have to repeat it six or seven times to make sure you didn't get any of the letters or numbers wrong. This is gonna help take that out of your life. It's gonna be great for folks who are out in the field and have to scan things over and over again. Perhaps they maintenance, HVAC systems. Maybe they are pulling information from equipment that you have out in the field that you give serial numbers to. They'll be able to hit the phone hit the photo of it, map it to the form. And what's even better is they do it constantly. If you have a form you use a lot, they'll be able to save that template and use it over and over again. And that's really gonna help you change how you're grabbing data out on the field. We also wanna help the way that you connect that data from Fast Field to Quickbase. And so what we've done is really tried to simplify the way you can think about connecting your Fast Field forms in your Quickbase applications by allowing you to pull data from Quickbase and make it more easily available in your Fast field form to autofill things for you with fast field data tables. But then also when you have that connection set up, send that form once it's submitted with data in it back to Quickbase, allowing you to say, like, I confidently know that my, team member out in the field can snap that photo, fill in that form, hit save. It's gonna make it back into Quickbase as soon as they're able to submit it. It's really closing the loop on how fast it is for you to do things. And you might be thinking that's great. Now I can take those forms that have been living as physical forms in my office and simplify and make them more accessible. But maybe you're also saying, oh, there's a lot of forms we use. It's gonna take me a while to get them. Similarly to OCR, one of the things we're really excited about in this last couple months is the Fast Build AI form converter. You can automatically take your existing PDFs or paper forms, feed them into the form converter, and it will help re rebuild them as a Fast Field form. Similarly to, like, when we're talking about spreadsheet import, this is all about saying, like, you have that form and maybe the barrier in the way of getting it built is just having the time to do it by yourself. We wanna make that even easier. We wanna make it easy to say yes to getting rid of these forms that are maybe holding you back with something as easy as a snapshot. In this example, you can see here, It even can be I write out an example of the form that I want to get me started, or it could be preexisting forms that you're actually filling on your office. And then, now you have that data. You got it in. You have the forms you need. You're working with it. We're also going to be rolling out the, Fast Build AI workflow engine. What this will allow you to do is take that data in Fast Build and use AI to help you set up certain workflows that should be happening already, summarizing the submissions, dispatching other tasks or work orders, routing the forms to specific folks with alerts. And this is just here to help you build a really awesome end to end workflow where instead of having to feel like you have to chase after folks in the field because you don't get to see them every day, you can feel confident that they have the stuff that they need. And that is sort of just an idea of, like, what you could be doing with Fast Field in this. And so all of these things are now available in beta. So if you are a Fast Field user today and you'd like to get, information how you can use them, please reach out. Alternatively, there are free trials available if somebody if there's a QuickBase user you'd like to think about what could Fast Field do for me. Coming back into, speaking about how we're connecting data and coming back into QuickBase, we have some awesome stuff that has recently come out for pipelines that we wanted to make sure we called out for folks. Firstly, we are making simpler pipelines simply faster. So, you might experience sometimes that when you pipeline triggers, it may take a little while for the data to get to you. One of the things we wanted to make sure is that if you have a simple pipeline that's just doing a few small things, it's going to be going faster for you. So those little changes that you wanna make, using path using, pipelines to work in the background will happen fast enough that your users may not even be aware that Quickbase is doing something for them. So the start quick start criteria is it has up to four steps. So it's four steps or less. Think about this as kind of like the, the express lane at the grocery store. If it's under a certain limit, it's going to get an opportunity to go into that express lane. It is driven by a human, which means that I'm in there doing something and that triggers the pipeline rather than the pipeline being triggered by an automated service like an API or something else calling into your app, only a few times per minute, and it operates on a low volume of data. So this is your smaller data set. We really wanted to make sure that these kinds of automations, because they're so important to making things feel smooth for a lot of folks, intuitively happen behind the scenes. So they'll trigger for below a second. They'll be about 30 times faster. Obviously, your experience will vary a little bit, but the whole goal here is about changing that 30% of our traffic, which is just these small quick hit pipelines. We want them to be really easy, even better. You don't have to do anything to take advantage of this. If your pipelines fit these criteria, they will start to they already have started to experience these faster triggers. And in the future, if you're thinking about building pipelines, you can think about the fact that these simpler pipelines will get to experience the flow this kind of flow. So that's a lot about how we're making things a little bit faster. Maybe you're thinking out of, you know, what else is there coming for integrations to help me do more with Quickbase without having to necessarily build things from scratch. And so we're we're excited to announce that there's some new channels coming to pipelines or getting some enhancements. Right now, these are both in closed beta. What that just means is if you wanna join, you just have to reach out to us and let us know. Similarly, under the little docs icon in the upper right hand corner on top of the chat, you will find a a way to go to our beta registration app. Any that's in our in our presentation here, I talk about the enclosed beta. You could potentially look there to find the opportunity to join us, and that is going to be an enhanced OpenAI channel. What this does is that we we launched OpenAI a little while ago. Then they make that that, that are basically going to allow you to access OpenAI. This really helps to support image and text generation. So we're we're just making them a little more robust, a little more of the options you would expect. And then similarly, we're launching a beta experience for Bluebeam, which is designed for construction pros. It's one of those tools that's really valuable for folks in the construction industry with 80 plus steps that are available. And this is just really here to help you, be able to connect to more of the systems that you rely on, similarly to how we launched Procore. And I see here for Kimberly, that's a great question. I will circle back to that, on how you can start simplifying some of your pipelines. And then next, we have spreadsheet import. I kinda mentioned it earlier. This is going to help you kind of say, like, hey. Or sorry. Not my spreadsheet. Wow. I apologize. This has the wrong title on it. This should instead be HTTP pipelines channel. This is going to be, basically, a new a new pipeline channel that is available already that is going to help you simplify the way you think about, think about how you build integrations that aren't part of the default experience for Quickbase. So this is if you are using a t or, API to connect to another system. This new version of the channel, you might already be making use of it, will support more authentication methods and authorization methods, will have improved error handling so you'll have a better idea of what went wrong, will allow you to store authorization credentials so that you don't have to constantly repeat putting in these authorization credentials as you're building. And then for JSON and YAML schemas that you are already, working with, this is just gonna make it easier for you to parse them and build them and bring them into future steps that you're using. For all these channels I've been talking about, whether it be the new, OpenAI channel, Bluebeam, or HTTP, they all, require you to start fresh with a new channel. So if you already have used the OpenAI in the past, what you're gonna just wanna make sure you do is go into pipelines, build a new pipeline, and look for these new channels once you're in the closed beta. So you'll see for a little bit, you're gonna see just two OpenAI channels. That's just while they're in the beta. Once the beta is over, you'll get simplified down to just the one. And that is a great question, Frank. I know that we have a lot of things coming for pipelines. And so, like, I know that there's definitely opportunities for us to expand further, and there's a desire for us to expand and to provide support for more channels. We're just going through our list right now. We're basically working from what we consider to be, like, our the the ones that have identified as being really possible for us to build, starting there. But you should expect I'd say keep your ear open to hear more from us over the course of the next couple of quarters, when it comes to pipelines. And if you have a specific channel you're passionate about, like, please let us know. Within the product, there's product feedback. Like, we do drive a lot of our, roadmap when it comes to these things off of the feedback we get from our customers when they let us know what tools they rely on. Because there's just a lot out there. So we wanna make sure we line up with what people are using and need a connection to. And besides that, this channel, the HTTP pipeline channel, is the one that, is really meant for, I need this custom, pipeline, and I'd like to take advantage of the pipeline's triggers and other things like that without having to start from scratch. That's what this is for. You can use a lot of the AI that you're or the of the UI that you're familiar with from pipelines, being able to pull in triggers and various tables. What you just have to provide is the API on the other side. So you can kind of build your own pipeline this way. It's definitely a higher lift, but, it is available. And then moving on from that into actually a the AI section, one of the things we're really excited about is that we are expanding the way we think about using our quick bay ask quick base AI. What this is is essentially a enhancement to our existing AI tools, which you can find all of our AI tools whenever you're signed in to Quickbase, in the upper right hand corner by clicking the little sparkle that appears up there in your nav bar. This is now a little the newest one we're launching is for AI driven assistance. And what this is is basically ask the AI a question that you have. And this is great if you're searching for specific documentation, if you are encountering gaps in our resources, or if you're just feeling a little frustrated because you you're so close to what you need, but you're having trouble finding a specific explanation. Ask this question, and our AI will part parse through and look through a lot of our documentation, including our help docs, and try to give you a suggestion. Caveat, this is in beta, and with all things AI, we always recommend folks, like, double check what what the steps are giving for you. And if you ever feel truly like you're stuck and you need help or you want someone to confirm for you, do not hesitate to reach out to our technical support team. We're absolutely here to help with questions like this. This AI is just supposed to help with speeding these things up. And that's just available for folks now when you go into, into the beta into the AI tools. You'll find other ones there as well that support things like helping you build tables, helping you build applications. And, also, one of the things that will be available is, Smart Builder will now be has previously helped you with building pipelines overall. We're also gonna be using, some AI in the future to help you build and fill steps in your pipelines. And I have a quick little demo here that I'm gonna throw up so that folks can see. Sorry about that. Looks like some of you folks lost the audio there. I can speak to kind of what you saw for, while we were looking through there. And what basically, on a new pipeline you're designing, within each step, you can click the little sparkle in the upper right hand corner just like you could in Quickbase, and it'll take a few seconds and then start auto auto populating the selected fields and with the d with within the detail section. So, basically, it will make suggestions based on the pipeline that you're building to help you fill in your steps based on what you've done previously in the, in in your pipelines. And this is just a way to help you fill out these pipelines a little bit faster, skip some of the manual steps that we could help you with. Yeah. I apologize for that. I guess the AI did indeed take over for a second. It didn't wanna let me, do the explanation just yet, but seems like that video might be just having a little trouble with that demo's audio. Yes. The whole goal here is not only do you wanna help you build pipelines faster in the very beginning, we wanna make it easier for you to then continue to flesh out your pipelines so you can get more value out of them. You can spend a little less of your time on the building, a little more time on the enjoying that they work. And so that's a little bit about we've we've talked about how you're going to think about collecting your data, how you're gonna think about, how AI could help you smooth or speed up some of the work that you're doing. And now is we're gonna talk a little bit more about a path a subject I'm very passionate about, which is how do we help you manage your apps at scale. So you have apps that are working. You have folks that are working in them. You wanna make sure you stay happy and stay in love with everything that's going on, with as little bumps as possible. And for many people, like, governance can feel a little scary or overwhelming. It doesn't have to be. We've been really excited in the last year to announce that we are we developed quick based language and solution APIs. That's a really fancy way of saying we've essentially made it possible for you to download sort of a formula of what your app is built from, store that formula, and then use that formula to build another app again in the future. So you can basically say, I would like to know how is my app built, and we'll kind of give you the secret, ingredients behind everything is as a a recipe for your app, essentially. You can use that then to deploy a new copy of it or exist an updating version. And then once you get to know the recipe, you can start changing it and mixing it up yourself. And you could use this to help you, stand up an app very quickly. You can use this to help you control how your app's life cycle is managed so that if you have an IT team that has some really strong, rules in place, they really wanna make sure that you're thinking very carefully about how your, application is managed to avoid any downtime or any outages or any lost data. This is a tool that lets them really get deep into the specifics of how is your app built, updated, and managed. And we are excited because we've basically been slowly over time expand or over time expanding what, the ALM coverage available solutions API is. The big new ones that we're that you might not have seen in the past is that we are now able to we have a beta available now for pipelines and connected tables, which will allow you to start using this to help you capture the setup of your connected tables or pipelines and bring those with you so that you could also not just deploy an app using the quick based, language and the solutions APIs, but also start deploying the automated workflows that power your apps. Right now, they are supporting click based sources and click based channels. We're not quite ready for integrations and things yet, but this is essentially us working to continue to cover more and more of the platform. Dashboard was also a fairly recent, addition. For forms, we do both legacy and new forms. For dashboards, we do the, newest round of dashboards that are, available. And then similarly, roles, relationships, reports, table settings. All of those things are things now that you can capture and get the get, like, the background information on through Quickbase and use that to help you rebuild or redeploy future apps. All of that obviously can sound very daunting. It can sound like a lot of work. You might be somebody who doesn't feel comfortable with digging into APIs yourself, or maybe you're a beginner in APIs and you're not sure you're ready to be a full IT team. I'm not. I have definitely used them a little bit, but if not dug deep into them, I leave that to some of the group based experts. One of the tools we have available in our app exchange is a solutions life cycle manager app. This is basically there to help you, capture and customize the process and help you project manage some of the if I wanted to use these, how would I store them, how would I track them, how would I think about deploying them. It helps you basically build an automated test, dev test prod environment, Make sure you have an idea of, like, what did I do in the past? What do I have plans to do in the process in the future, so that you can feel like you have a little more structure while you're learning. And, you can find a ton of this and other solution API's resources in our solution API resource hub. This is a great place to, basically learn more about this if it's something you're interested in. It's also a great resource for if you have an IT team that has been talking about how can we manage our solute our applications, how do you think about life cycle, and you're maybe like, I haven't done that before. I haven't done that yet. I'd like them to be involved because they can bring a lot of tools to the table and experience the table, but I need to find the middle ground. This is a great place to start the conversation with them if you're unsure how you could have this conversation. Similarly, we wanna make it easier for you to manage your access scale as admins every day so that you can feel like you know how are my apps being used, how are my users doing accessing Quickbase. And so one of those tools that we're really that we've used a lot with folks is our audit logs and our admin console that pulls a lot of the, sync, which pulls a lot of the information from your admin console out for you. And so when we're thinking about our audit logs, what that essentially is is reports that give you a whole bunch of information about user actions, activities, and your applications, things changing. Over the last few months, we've launched a bunch of new filters, enhanced designs, more details on what you what happens when an action takes place, whether it be accessing a report, editing an application table, things like that. And, similarly, we have an app available in our Exchange. It's the audit log library. This can help you pull information out of audit logs. Basically, download them out of your admin console, put them into a Quickbase app so you can take advantage of all of the reporting and other things that you're familiar with in Quickbase that makes it really easy for you to customize the data and consume the data. So you don't just have to leave it in a spreadsheet. You can also bring it into Quickbase and get get it to power your workflows just like you do any other data for your business. We've added 30 new events. We've also allowed it to hyperlink away to the resources and things of that nature. And the biggest things that we changed is we've expanded how much of pipelines will be reported here so you can feel more confident about what your pipeline is doing, when are you reaching errors, who's changing them. We've also made it so that there's a new, new table available in, admin console sync that also brings over those pipelines and automation date date data. So not only can you get it in the auto loggers themselves, when you build things using the, quick base, admin admin console sync, you have these new options available to you. Let's see. And that grade basically is gonna allow you to have way more coverage over what is available. If you give me one second, I can actually give you a whole outline of what is going to be available. I'm just gonna pull it up quick. So if you look here, what you should be able to see is this is our current framework for how our admin console works. What essentially it does is there's three applications you can get from our, from our exchange that will allow you to connect on business and enterprise plans to this admin console sync and pull a ton of important data for you from your apps table, users table, access table, user tokens, pipelines, everything. Previously, you could get a lot of information around these topics of apps, users, and access you see on the left. What's been new over the last few months and with this launch are you can now pull audit logs specifically. So not just the changes in your application, but also the logs tracking your applications, user tokens, pipelines, and connected tables. What this means is that we're just giving you a lot more visibility. And you might be asking yourself, like, what does an app bring to the table here? Well, basically, what's what's really helpful is we're using these admin console sync that can basically pull data on a schedule. And you can pull this into a quick based app that you can then customize and share with more folks so that you don't have to add more account admins. You can add individuals to these, to the edge of the table to allow them to get the same visibility and control you could in quick base. You can customize what they're able to see. You can set up, nurture flow you can set up workflows that, email nurture emails are kicked off when certain changes are uploaded or happen in the data, other things like that that you can basically take advantage of a lot of the power of Quickbase right in that admin console, to help power your your workflows. This could be really great if your IT team wants more visibility overall, but they're not sure they wanna be quick based admins who are busy every day with building quick base. This is a way that you can help you try to track stuff or that you can help track things yourself. We will be having a webinar on that, specifically on these changes that have come to the admin console, admin core apps and how you can start batting them in, in May, available as part of our ongoing series of webinars. And let's go back to here. Super important, and it was something that I really liked, is that in the past, these app, the these audit logs have always been only available for account admins at that account admin level, which means that you as a builder might feel a little frustrated that you can't see what's going on in your application alone without hunting down your admin and essentially being like, hey. You need to send me stuff or you need to explain things to me or, like, can we go in these together? We're doing away with that. We are launching app audit logs, which is essentially means that you will get the power of audit logs but in your application, and you as an app admin will be able to see them. Right now, you still need to you're still need to work with your account admin to turn on the audit logs for your application. But once you have those things turned on, you'll be able to go into your account your to your app yourself and designate if there's fields you're really passionate about making sure that you are auditing. But you can basically see our folks accessing reports, are they accessing dashboards, what actions are they taking, are they editing records, deleting records. This is about giving you as an app admin a lot more visibility if you want it and if your account is looking to do it, into what's going on inside of your app. This is about taking the pulling the veil way back a little bit and letting you see more. And so, basically, if you wanna work with your account admins to get this stuff turned on, it's not that hard, thankfully. They may already have stuff like this turned on that they've been using for themselves. But, basically, what they can do if you are an account admin and wanna turn this on or if you wanna work with them, this is a simple step. So they go into the apps table available in their admin console. They just select in the little, checkbox list which apps they'd like to enable it for, and then they can enable or disable those data change logs. What that does is it says this app is now able to take data changes and capture them. You, as the admin for your app would still wanna go in and make sure that you are, taking checks you're basically going into your application in the field settings for every field that you wanna make sure you're tracking, you just wanna click at the very bottom. There's an option to say include this in audit logs, and it will make sure make sure that that field's value is getting captured. And that makes it much easier for you to kinda keep up on this. Really importantly, why it's you're kinda maybe thinking to yourself, well, why would I go to these fields and check this checkbox and start tracking these values? It's great to know when they've changed, but, like, what can I do with it? The big thing you can do with it is their data change logs will now also be able to let you, restore previous values on a field by field basis. So say, there's a busy day and one of my team members goes into my customer's app and updates a bunch of my customers. And they have that syncing feeling, like, ten minutes later when they look at a new email that they got and realize, oh, no. I read look. I read the wrong email, and I changed a bunch of customers' contact informations or names in the app, but I don't remember which ones I changed, and they're all been changed already. You can now use these audit logs to find individual instances where something has changed. And you could say, in this example, you know, you can see here change to change, what is different landing gear versus landing gears, 100 versus one ten. You can individually go back and overwrite those changes, allowing you to capture a little bit of data with or maybe capture a little bit of your data without having to rethink your entire app. For experienced admins, you may have had that moment where someone messed up a couple of records and now you've been talking to support about overriding the entire table or overriding so much more. You can basically say, like, I just wanna capture this one change, and write it backwards. And it can do it'll do field by field, and you could do multiples. What's even great is if you go in and change one of these records, we capture that change as well. So you'll be able to know that when I fixed it, I fixed it at this date and time, and these were the values I changed to. So we audit our own fixes for the audit logs. This is really meant to make it easier for you as an admin to not have your work stop because a couple of simple mistakes happened. Someone accidentally deleted some data. Someone changed a few things they don't want to, didn't want to. You have more control now. That's what I would say. So for right now, if there's fields that are really important to you, I would say work with your account admin. Make sure it gets turned on for your app. For your for your tables that matter the most, make sure you're going in and capturing the fields in the field settings that you want to turn audit logs on for. Right now, the limit is 50, fields for every table. That is something that our team is working on expanding and also removing the need for you to proactively go out and select those records. That just isn't live yet. But, eventually, there'll be essentially a larger amount of fields covered with less manual work on your side. But for right now, if you if this is something you are like, I want this today, go in, make sure it's turned on for your application, then go in and make sure it's turned on for your fields that matter the most to you. And this is I should say also, this is specifically for fields that are data entry that's that's data entry that's that's entered. So manually entry fields, no formula fields, no relationship fields unless they're specifically the, related record fields. So anything that's a derived field, anything that's calculated by a formula, that doesn't get captured because those changes don't happen because of the record changes. But changes to the fields that impact those formulas will be captured if you make sure those are the ones you select. And so, you know you know, where do I find these in the app? It's really exciting. I've got them now. I've maybe started turning them on. Once you have them enabled, you'll just go into your app settings in an app that you have. You'll go over and, select your app management, and it's just the very last option on app management right now. So this is a feature for for Rob. That's a great question. So the audit log app that helps you manage your audit logs, that's a little bit different. That won't also necessarily have all this information unless that's one of the things you're trying to pull in. Instead, it will be in the app itself. So you can see this image I have up. This is what it looks like inside of your application. You'd be able to pick a date, start, and end date that you're trying to filter for, individual tables, users, actions, things like that that you can filter on, then you can display a log. And here you'll see field property access, access, table data, data dashboard access. You'll see, edit or delete records as well. And one of the things whenever there's a those kind of changes, if you have the tracking changes turned on, you will see an option on the, a little URL or a little, HTML for, review these changes, and you'll be able to review them. So this is available now once it's enabled. So, essentially, it'll be available in your apps once somebody has turned it on for you. It is something that you can actually take advantage of now. So these are steps you can take today with your own team if you wanted to get this get started use to be taking advantage of these features. And that's just and that would just make this basically is about putting the power and the ability to do these things into your app admin's hands so that they can take some of that admin work, load and also so that they can feel a little more connected. They're gonna know a lot more about their application. For filtering, we're limiting folks to seven days, and it starts when you click on the, when you click on the change logs. So whenever you're trying to basically say, like, a start date, end date, you're gonna wanna keep it within a seven day span. It it tracks a lot of actions, but it is possible to, to kind of, like, filter down on what you're looking for if you're just looking for, like, edits or deletes. Those are available through the actions option. You'll be able to say, I wanna just look at edits. I wanna just look at table dashboard access. But this is just about putting a lot more options in your hands when it comes to managing your account. And like I said, this is under app settings, under app management, there's options at the very bottom for you to be able to access the the audit logs for your table once it's live. You just wanna make sure that you work with folks in your account too, that it will to make sure that it is live. And then we'll keep going. So similarly, you know, it's great to be able to have more visibility. It's great to be able to have more visibility in individual applications as well. One of the things we've done to also help recently that we cannot repeat enough is that we got a lot of feedback from folks that that they needed a way for them to share or more more accurately control access to you, the ability to create pipelines, the ability to edit certain apps, and so we created service accounts. And what service accounts are all about is about creating a user that can be shared and accessed by multiple other authorized users to allow them to essentially, share a set of permissions and a workflow that you can manage better. It allows you to maintain a more detailed audit trail because you know the user that's authorized to make the changes. It allows for similar access, to simple similar access to be shared. And it's basically once somebody is added. So say I wanted to add or I asked to be added to my account, they would say, well, do we have this account? Do we have this service account that might be, Quickbase, webinar managers? And they would add me in, and it would basically become an option available to me under my user I I under my user settings. So if I go and click on my my initials where they appear in the upper right hand corner, I will now have a service accounts option once someone adds me to that. And that will allow me to then access the, permissions of that service account. And so if I wanted to control, for example, all the pipelines that were made in my account, because I wanna make sure that they're easy to find, they're easy to edit. I don't want to have a situation where someone's on vacation, but they're the only person that knew or that owned this pipeline, so it's hard for me to find, let alone edit. I can now say everybody who's in the service account is allowed to edit pipelines or make pipelines, but everybody else can't. It's not necessary for everybody. You might realize that they hate. This is more complication I need in my my own management. It's really there for the folks who are like, I want this level of control. I wanna know that if somebody is making changes to the most important apps in my account or they are making changes to the pipelines that we run on, then I can easily find those in audit logs, and I can also make sure that they are carefully managed. And yes. So, but, basically, that's just something that we were definitely saying a lot as a PSA is sort of if if you haven't started taking advantage of service accounts and it's something you've wanted or perhaps many people before we made them available built their own where they would say I have this user and we're sort of sharing authorization credentials. This is way more secure, support SAML authentication, main makes it a lot easier to maintain things. We're recommending folks think about doing this. And you can also you can either create a new user for this or you can convert an existing user. So if you already have a service account that a lot of you are sharing, you can turn that user into a service account. And that way you already kinda have the permissions that you want built out. You know which they can access. You're just making it part of the Quickbase system, and then there's a section within that service account when you're managing your users to actually indicate who should be the people who can access this service account. So that was a lot of content we covered. These are, like I said, these are really hyper focused on what stuff from our launch came out and is available as a beta or general access today. For those things that are available as a beta, we do have a, a beta app that's out there that helps you sign in for those things. If you're interested in being a beta participant, that QR code will take you there. I also put the link in our, in our document section in the upper right hand corner along with more information on grid reports and a lot of the other features we covered here today. The big thing would be new forms on mobile will will show will show up as the beta. It is close to being GA, so you don't have to sign up for it. You can just wait for the GA date to come this later this month. There is a QBL that which is that, service that solutions API. Support for connected tables is still a beta, so you just have to let us know that you would like to join it. And then lastly, the enhanced OpenAI and Bluebeam pipelines channel we talked about today are one that you would need to similarly sign up if you would like to get access to them. Obviously, in the future, there will be a point where we just roll them out and make them open to everybody. But if you are really interested in trying them out and you wanna see the current version, sign up there. With all betas, the caveat I always give folks is make sure that you are definitely trying out real use cases for them, but don't build anything hypercritical on them that you would feel sad if they got lost or broken because there are things that change during the beta process. I always like to give people that warning ahead of times that they don't say, like, I built something and it was really great and I really loved it and I spent a couple hours on it, but then something broke or something changed. And I guess now what we can circle back to is q and a. Covered a lot of stuff. Happy to take questions. I already see that there's a bunch of stuff in the, docket. I will go through what we have here. Someone has asked, when will the breakouts be available to watch? So for Empower this year, we did not, record all the breakout sessions. The keynotes are available on demand, and that is what we have available today. Besides that these were in person experiences, what we will be doing for the, for a lot of the stuff that was covered in our launch and for things that we wanted to review on, we instead are covering them in our, customer webinar series over the next few months so that make sure that we can keep folks up to date. We're gonna do a deep dive on the Fast Field at the end of this month. Next month, we're going to go into AI. The month after that, we're gonna dive into a lot of our governance, UI, features that we talked about today in greater detail. I can pull up for everybody, how where you can where you can access all those. Similarly, they'll just be web webinars like we're having here today so you can catch up, but we won't have all of the content, unfortunately. And someone asked if these timelines given for spreadsheet in an important grid reports are going to be when they're generally available or open beta. Right now those timelines are for open beta. It is possible the open beta won't be super long, so they might line up as well with GA, but you should think about those as when they'll be generally, when they'll be available for beta, when you'll be able to try them out. But we will likely be getting a lot of customer feedback because it's super valuable in the process to make sure we got everything just right. Will our current forms need to be reformatted or redesigned to have them appear properly in the new mobile form experience? So for your current forms, if you're using, old legacy forms in Quickbase mobile, you could just leave them, as they were. If you mean, like, for your new forms, if you have a new form and you wanna make it appear in the future on new mobile, the new forms will just be supported. You won't have to make changes to them. You'll just go into your app, under the mobile form option, and you'll now have the option, and once it goes live, to select your new form. So you won't have to make a new new form if you have one. If you would like to make it take advantage of the new forms, you would have to build that new form, if you don't have one, if all of your forms are old legacy forms. And someone had asked Kimberly had asked, how do you simplify existing pipelines that appear to be complex? Meaning that there is there easier ways to do that? That's a little bit trial and error. I would say, one of the great things to look at is any of your pipelines that are old. If you have pipelines that are much older that feel much more complicated, working with the AI pipelines builder, which is available under that little sparkle, you could basically ask it to build what that old pipeline used to do. And because there's just been changes happening over time, to to how pipelines are built, some of those ones are really easy to simplify because we added steps or we added new options that are just easier. They're easier to use. You might discover that some of those pipelines could be smaller. And the AI is great because you can basically put in what you want, and it will give you what it thinks is close. And you can kind of quick check, does it look like it's helpful? Does it look like it's doing the right thing? It's a great way to just, like, quickly prototype. Is there a is there a way that to do this simpler that I might have just missed? It's a great way of, so you don't have to always recreate all of those pipelines if you just end up creating the exact same pipeline again. Otherwise, if you're feeling like a specific pipeline you need help with, I would say that, like, we have some great training on our university and things like that that are available that might be helpful. Will the cost of quick Quickbase increase as new features are added? It's a really classic question. Every SaaS platform will always eventually have have a price increase based on features being added. They will not we we do not say, like, hey. This individual feature is definitely gonna drive change. There will always be change. We always do our best to communicate that as proactively as possible. We have teams that are really devoted to how do we make sure that the value you're getting out of Quickbase continues to be everything in your like, everything that makes it worthwhile worthwhile for your business. Is it possible to only turn AI on for certain users? So right now, the easiest thing to do, is to make sure that if you want AI accessible only to certain folks, it's just really moderate who has access to AI because we can turn it off at the account level, but we don't have individual user level. So if you have concerns about, users using AI, you might wanna ask yourself, are they the right users to be app builders? Are they the right users to be account admins? That is a great question. Let's see. So that's a great question on, like, can we turn it off all on for certain users? Not right currently. Is creating a table in an app via AI an option? So that is not currently an option today. It is definitely something that we've heard as feedback and has been talked about. There's not currently a way to just say I wanna create this table. It is definitely something we are exploring, though. So I would say keep keep your eyes on our AI news as time goes on. You might see that that's something that we get to. Yes. And so, like and so Britney, similarly with pipelines has asked us. So for the fillest step in pipelines using the AI, will it when it adds suggested fields, it will map them. Yes. So what it will do is it will say for this individual step, I suggest these fields for you, and it will add them in there. And you could say, like, I and it will be pulling that basically saying, like, in a previous step, you use these values. Would you like then it makes sense to use them again because the field types match or the field types have similar names. It'll not quite be a one to one, but it is definitely something that, you can use to help speed that process up. Let's see. What are they someone wanted to ask, can the app app audit logs recover deleted record? Yes. So similarly, in the in app audit logs, if you are tracking them, there are there in the future, there are going to be options available to allow you to restore the whole, the whole record. I believe that is going to be waiting for when we also do the work to remove the 50 apps 50 fields per table limit. So for every field right now, you can for every app table right now, you can track 50 fields using the audit logs. That's something that will be going away in the near future. That will then unlock the ability for the record restoration to happen as well. It just hasn't happened quite yet. I, I I wanna say it's coming in the next two releases. I'm just trying to remember exactly which one. And, yes, this deck and the recording of this webinar will be available after this is all done on demand here using the exact same magic link you did you used to drive to join us today. And it will also be available on our events page if you wanted to share it with anybody. Yeah. It it was definitely something that, like, we knew with these audit logs with allowing folks to access more of them. We wanted to remove those limits. We wanted to make it a little bit more, accessible. We didn't wanna make you do all the picking ahead of time because that can be a little like, oh, I have to pick my favorite fields, or I have to know ahead of time I need to go into 50 of them and update. We wanna make it flexible, more easy, more accessible. We want you to make a experience that you can fall in love with easier. So I that's I mean, that's all the questions I had now. I in the a QA now. I can definitely take any more. I'm gonna look through the chat really quick. And I saw that Frank asked when will AI generate forms. I know that's definitely something that we are thinking about. We are definitely enhancing the way. So similar to, OCR that will allow you to snap a picture and pull things into, Fastfield. We are working on a similar workflow that will allow you to snap a picture of a form and pull it into pipelines and quick and and thus also pull into Quickbase or any of your other automated workflows. And I believe some of those options in the future would allow you to then think about using that AI and using those pipelines to help you generate a, a form, generate Quickbase application. So, like, the the a lot of what you're seeing in Fastfield is definitely things we're thinking about how can they join Quickbase. There's a lot more that we're going to be talking about for AI in our May AI focused feature focus. That's the one that's really gonna dig into what else are we offering with them and give you more specific demos. There's just there's so much content to cover, and those there's a lot of things that are not quite out yet or will be out in May that we also wanted to be able to cover when you can actually access them. So I would say, like, if that's something you feel really excited about and passionate about, definitely join us. I'm dropping a link for the registration page that links all of our upcoming webinars. Similarly, if you're excited about pipelines and have never touched them before, we'll be doing pipelines one zero one end of the month. We'll be doing fast field at the end of the month. We will be doing a a revisit of how you can expand on your governance core apps and take advantage of all the new features in May. We will be doing one on AI in May, and then we will be doing a deep dive into solution APIs and how you can get started with them in June. And then in June, we'll be doing another feature focus where you will dig a little bit more into some of the things that were coming soon, at Empower because we will be a little bit closer to them. We'll have a little more detail. We'll have a little more ability to dive into them. And we'll be revisiting a lot of that governance stuff that we talked about here today. So, like, if you are someone who's like, I'm busy and I'd love to have an excuse to stay up to date on Quickbase, I highly recommend that you take a look at, our future upcoming webinars. Even if you just sign up for them and get them on demand later, you will be able to access them afterwards and catch up on the parts that you're most excited about. And that is just basically, like, a high level of overview of, like, what we have available. Let's see. I've got one more question on when will Quickbase University reflect the new pipelines? I will say, like, there's some enhancements to university coming soon. Keep your eyes open for sure. There'll definitely be some new stuff coming into the university. And then with would the AI be able to convert legacy to new forms? That is a great question. That is not sorry we've heard that question. I know it's definitely something that we are chatting about, but there's nothing on our road map right now. If that's something that you think would be valuable, I heavily recommend putting it in our feedback app to say that use something you would need help with. Yeah. It's a it's a it's a great question to ask. And I'll say anytime you're you're asking yourself, like, could our AI or could our features help you do something, definitely don't hesitate to put in our feedback app. That is the place where so many good ideas start, and they can gain a lot of momentum there because we definitely wanna make sure that that's part of how we think about the future of our road map. And it but if you don't immediately see action on it, don't get discouraged. It can take a little time for things to gain momentum, but, like, it definitely impacts us. And I've been with Quickbase for a long time now, and I've seen many of the things that started out as a quest as a suggestion from a customer become a reality. So, like, you always be putting your ideas out there. And I see from Frank, there's a question about, I use AI to help create apps, but it feels a little limited. What are their build enhancements? Will there be out there? It's a great question. So, obviously, the AI is a work in progress. It'll always continue to get better as we think about how can we expand the options available to it. When it comes to the core building experience, we are still thinking a lot about what pieces we give to folks, whether it be we recently we we did doc generation where we made a new version of how you can create your own documents based off Quickbase data. We'll always be looking for opportunities to take advantage of giving you new features in Quickbase, enhancing the features that you'd use today, whether it be in the face lift we did on our new, emails notifications that will now also allow you to schedule those notifications, which used to be a big barrier that didn't exist with our older, email notifications, and it allows a lot more customization. We will we're always looking for ways to enhance the things you use to build your apps separate from whatever AI might help you build them. So, like, that's a great question. It's definitely really core to our philosophy a lot around, like, how can we create a a greater fit or finish? A great example being things like our greater reports where today you have a grid edit version of your report and your normal version of your report, and you kinda have to switch between the two of them. In the future, your reports will simply work a lot more intuitively, a lot more like the spreadsheets you're used to so that even building an app will get better because the user experience will just be closer to what people think, when they think about using as a a tool that includes a spreadsheet like workflow. And I see from, Cecil, got a question on, will document templates be able to assemble multiple reports to a single document with the ability to adjust the size and position of charts? Most of what we have today in our document templates, you can customize to pull in specific reports, and you can pull in more than one. You just need to do a little bit of the building on your end. It's it's not a, like, our dashboard builder. It's not a simple drag and drop pieces on a, like, drag and drop builder. It does require a little more like, I know I need these things. I need to pull out their individual implements. I need to pull out those individual elements. And so we've reached our 02:00 point. I am gonna say that it's time for us to wrap up. I thank everybody for joining us today. It's always awesome to have you join us on these, webinars and learn a little bit more about Quickbase and take all of your awesome questions. Please, like I said, do not hesitate to ask these questions. Don't hesitate to share your feedback in our cuss in our feedback app within Quickbase. And, also, if you are interested in joining us for the rest of the month or all these other awesome topics, please do click on that registration link I dropped from the chat. I'll drop it again. We are always happy to see you and join you. Thank you so much, everybody, today, and have a great rest of your day.