Agilebase platform blog: recent updates

A few customers have been interested in powering up their analytics with tools such as Tableau, Qlik or Power BI. agileBase has built in charting which is great for quickly analysing and answering questions about data in your system, but specialist business intelligence apps can be particularly useful if you want to join data from…

Sometimes, views are created purely as sources of data for charts – where the chart is the interesting thing and what you want to see first. There’s now an option you can tick to show the charts for a view by default whenever you open that view. In the view’s manage tab, just tick ‘Show…

We’re excited to tell you that not only will we be exhibiting at the Food & Drink Business Europe ‘IT Summit’, a week next Tuesday on the 7th November, but our Director of Food, Mark Garrett, is a guest speaker. http://www.itfoodsummit.com/speaker/mark-garrett-product-director-food-agilechilli/ He’ll be talking about some of the heart-pounding experiences of his past life managing a…

A quick update for developers using agileBase to integrate with other web based software using the API: You can now see internal object IDs in the agileBase admin interface just by hovering over any field names, view names or table names. To see field or calculation IDs, hover over over a field in the ‘fields’…

agileBase has long had the ability to colour unusual values, for numbers and dates. This is based on standard deviation from the mean. These colours have recently been tweaked to better follow the agileBase colour palette, but along with that, we’ve also added the ability to colour text fields, based on the words in them. To…

When each user adds a tile, the system picks a colour for it based on what’s already on the screen. It tries to create a variety of colours with little repetition. The colours themselves are from a specially designed palette that creates a friendly, interesting look that we try to differentiate from the boring blue…

As you probably know, you can do all sorts of ad-hoc filtering and searching in agileBase – in any view, hover over the question mark to the left of the filter boxes at the top to see all the available options. All of these filters let you search within a particular field, you can if…

One of the recent charting improvements is the ability to add filters to a chart, however it’s not a very well known feature, so here’s a little guide on how to use it. In a view, you can add ‘ad-hoc’ filters using the filter inputs at the top of the screen. In this screenshot for…

You might have heard about our recent calendar sync setup – the ability to two-way synchronize calendars in agileBase with your cloud calendar provider such as Google or Office 365. We’ve now leveraged this technology to use comments in the system as reminders to yourself. If you see a message in your comment stream that…

For a few customers, we’ve recently been manually creating reports containing charts and data, that are automatically emailed to managers regularly (once a month or week). This has proved so successful that we’re now introducing a feature to let users create their own reports by choosing charts and data. It’s really simple to set up…