Agilebase platform blog: recent updates

You may know that you can set up various policies for how data deletion in agileBase works: https://agilechilli.com/help-centre/agilebase/managing-deletion-policies/ The default and most restrictive (safest!) is that if there are any records linked to the one you’re deleting, you won’t be able to remove it until you’ve manually removed or disassociated all of the linked ones…

Today’s update is about something that you as a user will probably never notice and wouldn’t have known about if it wasn’t for this post. There are no new features, behavioural or graphical changes. However it is something we’ve deemed so important that it’s been worth spending the past year on. Work started in March…

What’s new in the agileBase platform this week? As usual, we haven’t been sitting on our hands and there are some interesting new updates. Font Awesome The icons used in agileBase, as part of the user interface and from which an administrator to represent each tile, have been upgraded to Font Awesome version 5, bringing…

The agileBase strapline is ‘fast, friendly, flexible’. By ‘fast’ we usually mean fast to develop and prototype, i.e. you can typically get working business databases built and running in minutes or hours. However, it has another meaning too – we’ve always strived to have the fastest response times as users interact with apps built on…

We’ve had two-factor authentication (2FA) capabilities for around three years now in the agileBase platform. Along with the other platform features, we’ve been keeping it up to date and improving as time goes on. For example, as of a few months ago you can set up app-based 2FA for enhanced robustness. Two factor authentication is…

A while ago we introduced the timeline feature, which comes with day grid, week grid, month grid and year grid views, to add to the standard day, week and month views. This allows you to see a list of views down the lefthand side of the screen (e.g. audits, due, meetings, expiring certificates or whatever…

As the leaves start to turn, we’ve selected a range of login screens to match the changing season. As usual, Gemma has curated a set of stunning photos that will brighten up everyone’s morning as they log in. For all of the agile:NPDtech customers using the agileBase platform, some of the food-based screens may even…

One of the most effective features we’ve added to the agileBase platform to improve performance is the ability to cache views. That can dramatically speed up views which do lots of number crunching. A typical example might be something like looking at a product list report which contains all the stats about sales per year,…

The ability to interoperate and communicate with other software is fundamental to the value a cloud system can offer, which is why most providers, including ourselves, use APIs. These allow different systems to talk to each other using a common language. There is normally some means of controlling the number of data transfers, otherwise a…

A small but welcome feature for many people today – when adding a comment to any record, if you include any URLs, they will be recognised as such and appear as links. People can then click through to open the website or document you’ve linked to.