Agilebase platform blog: recent updates

We’ve been talking a lot about agileBase’s ‘chaser’ feature recently, giving examples of what it can do, but we’re aware not everyone may know precisely what it is! It was developed for a particular purpose, but has turned into one of the most promising features generally that we’ve released over the past few of years.…

The new chaser feature of agileBase is proving one of the most popular things we’ve ever launched! For users of our agile:SA product, chasers are set up for you to automatically email suppliers requesting new ingredient spec documents, non-conformance responses, certifications & accreditations, risk assessments etc. whenever they’re due. With the gradually increasing focus on compliance…

If you store records of people you deal with in your agileBase instance, what is that data used for? Where did it come from? Who can see it? Why is it legitimate for you to process that data – which of the six lawful bases under the GDPR apply? Will the data be accessed outside…

A quick  update – customers may notice that the number that two factor authentication codes come from has changed. That’s because the old number only had capabilities to send within the UK, the new number can send worldwide, which is necessary for some of our customers. The new number is +447400094002, you may like to add…

One of these days, we won’t need to remember passwords, everyone be able to quickly and easily log in to services with biometrics (e.g. face recognition, voice recognition, even heart rate recognition), USB keys or perhaps chips in our phones/watches/jewellery or embedded under our skin! Until then, we have to manage our passwords. The problems…

A quick tip for people uploading files to agileBase – if you hover over a filename or icon, the file size will be displayed. The size shown is a total that includes all previous versions, if you’ve uploaded multiple versions over time. There’s also a new ‘hidden’ field available that can be added to views,…

Any organisation using the agileBase platform will almost certainly be storing and manipulating data, whether that be as one of the agileChilli standard apps for food manufacturers, or a custom system tailored to your industry and organisation. That data might be sensitive and will in some cases be personal data – data about individual people.…

Our NPDtech product for food manufacturers has a new ability – rolling up all the ingredients in a sub-recipe to form an accumulated ingredients declaration. Note: while this example deals with recipes, the agileBase platform can use the same features to work with any items that require a rollup e.g a bill of materials (BOM).…

What are views in agileBase used for? Typically the majority will be operationally helping you to do your job, e.g. giving you a list of tasks to work through or a searchable list. At a higher level, others will help you gain insight e.g. performing calculations or displaying charts. For task oriented views, knowing how…

We’ve just added a useful new feature – regular expressions. In other words, rather than just using simple rules to limit the ability for people to enter duff data, such as ’email addresses must contain an @ sign’, an administrator can now in addition add arbitrarily complex checks, as long as they know how to…