That’s why I’m so excited about this product release. We are introducing a Developer Sandbox for all Enterprise accounts that will let you make changes to your live applications without risk. You simply create and test the changes in the safety of the sandbox application, continue using the live application, run a compatibility check to identify any problems and update the live app with your changes – safe as houses.

There are new features that all customers will enjoy. An improved user management area allows account administrators to easily manage access of thousands of QuickBase users. Finding users is much easier with dynamic search and sorting capabilities, while modifying status is simplified with bulk actions and the ability to provision users by importing a CSV file.

Lastly, a great usability tweak worth mentioning is better visibility and tuning of [non]searchable fields. This is a great way to make fast searches even faster.

As you drag a timeline and link it to another task, data is updated automatically and reports are reconfigured on the fly.

Who: Open to All
What: Don Larson from MCF showing Advanced Gantt Charting for QuickBase
When: 2pm Eastern time today, 11/17
Where: Online via WebEx
How: Register at: http://quickbase.intuit.com/webinars/register/965033785

MCF Technologies is a Certified QuickBase Solution Provider and is based in Cleveland, Ohio. http://mcftech.com.

Exact Forms Plus! and the Scheduler were developed by Juiced Technologies to create feature rich enhancements to QuickBase’s Exact Forms and calendar components. Exact Forms Plus! enables you to generate MS Word and/or PDF documents in QuickBase and Scheduler provides multiple daily/weekly/monthly calendar views along with drag and drop calendar editing.

Join us when we speak with Keith Jusas, founder of Juiced Technolgoies for a technology webinar on Thursday, November 19th at 2:00 PM Eastern time. Register here.

Keith Jusas is founder of Juiced Technologies a Certified QuickBase Solution Provider that provides integration and development services as well as technology tools for QuickBase. http://juicedtechnologies.com/

This QuickBase webinar will show you how Advantage CRM+ works in QuickBase and uses built-in integration with Vertical Response’s, (www.verticalresponse.com) email campaign management engine. Advantage Integrated Solutions is a Certified QuickBase Solution Provider offering application development and custom integration services.

You can register at http://quickbase.intuit.com/webinars/.

This webinar session will show and demo how it is set up and how it works. Like all of the 10 live weekly webinars, they are free and open to questions and answers. Register here.

Anything that is in Outlook is sent to QuickBase and anything in QuickBase can be sent to Outlook.

Joe Acunzo, President of SoftTech, Inc. will be on hand to show how to set up and use “SendToQuickBase” and “SendToOutlook”. If time permits we will dive in to how this product is used for routing inbound emails directly into QuickBase (i.e., email requests) and how companies use this for logging QuickBase events.

The webinar is entitled, “ How to add Microsoft Outlook to QuickBase” and you can register at http://quickbase.intuit.com/webinars/.

This is one of 10 live and interactive webinars we hold each week. All are welcome.

As of Monday, September 14^th the QuickBase discussion forums will be hosted on Intuit’s Community Forum platform. The Intuit platform provides easy access to discussion forums for most of Intuit’s products and services and gives users a voice in the development of the site.

It takes commitment, understanding, and a whole lot of know-how to create a vibrant and helpful community like you have. Over the years we’ve been participating right along with you (Big shout out to Jess!) and it’s been great to see everyone contribute whatever they can to improve the discussion. Go ahead, take a bow.

Here are some of the features we think you’ll like about the new forum:

• Rich user profiles including contact information, photos and bios
• RSS and Email subscriptions to forums, questions and answers
• User comments on questions and answers
• Rich Text editing for posts
• Point system that rewards helpful and prolific community members

With this move we’re looking forward to a new chapter for this community. Not only are we excited to provide a more complete discussion experience, but we’re really looking forward to seeing new faces and hearing new voices in the forum.

Best of all we can’t wait to hear from you. What are you looking for in a community? What motivates you to contribute? What would you say to someone who’s a community skeptic? What’s your best story about how our forum has helped you? We’d love to hear your thoughts on any of the above… better yet, save it for next week and post it to the forum.  There could be some QuickBase swag in it for the best story or the most compelling discussion. Next Friday we’ll let you know who took home all the cheddar!

Thanks for being a part of this tremendous group of people and most of all, thanks for using QuickBase!

Dave McCormick

Some of the customer examples that were highlighted in the press release represent the benefits QuickBase customers are seeing, whether they are using QuickBase for Customer Service Management, SOX Management, Project Management or CRM:

• Citizens National Bank spent $150,000 for Siebel CRM software and an additional $350,000 in integration costs, only to find out that it didn’t meet the needs of their relationship banking team. Citizens replaced Siebel with QuickBase, costing only $249 for 10 users, plus $3.00/per month for each additional user, improving the productivity of their call center team and level of customer service delivered.
• Google estimates that QuickBase delivers cost savings in the $100,000-200,000 range by saving 1,500-2,000 administrative man-hours of work over the course of a year managing its SOX compliance efforts, according to Erik Jonte, Google’s IT Risk Manager.
• Kayak.com avoided spending $300,000 a year in salaries and benefits for an estimated 12 extra staffers to run traditional customer-service software by leveraging QuickBase for a subscription fee of $10,000 per year. Kayak uses QuickBase to manage projects, vendors, and some accounts.
• Pure Water Technologies estimates it has saved $50,000-$100,000 annually by migrating to QuickBase from Saleforce.com. This includes reducing administrative staff by 75 percent; saving $3,000 per month in CRM cost; and gaining more than 50 hours of sales time daily.

Read the full THINKstrategies press release here.

To add these buttons:

1. Right click over the name of a field that is close to where you want the button to be and scroll down to add a new field.
2. Name it what you like and select a “Formula URL” field type and save. The text will show up on your form but we haven’t told the button what we want it to do so it is blank.
3. Right click on the name of your button and select “Edit the field properties for this field…”. If you like you can cut and paste the example code into the FORMULA area. See the example code below.

Copy and paste the following example code. Use your own field names in place of the ones below. NOTE: Sometimes when you cut and paste the quotation marks pickup unwanted formatting. Especially the quotation marks. Make sure when you paste that they are the straight up and down quotation marks and not the angled ones. (Thanks Jared)

You are welcome to attend any of our 10 weekly webinars. Many of the webinars discuss online database items just like this.