Agilebase platform blog: recent updates

… or at least interesting to look at. The above is an example of our newly updated administrator information page – it shows you information about what’s going on in your agileBase account: which parts are most used and by who, trends, capacity and usage etc. The new addition is the graph at the bottom,…

A while ago, we introduced the ability to better control deletion policies for data. To summarise, if you have two linked sets of data, say companies and contacts, where a contacts belong to companies, you can specify how you want deletions to behave. Either deleting a company will delete all related contacts deleting a company…

A major new feature has made it’s way into the agileBase user interface – the ability to bulk edit many records at once. Strictly speaking, this feature has been part of agileBase for a while, but previously it was only available in the administrative interface – now it’s available to the masses! For example, if…

We’re pleased to announce a new charting feature. ‘Year on year’ lets you take a standard date-based chart, e.g. sales opportunity numbers per month, over a number of years, and convert it into a ‘year-on-year’ chart, where only 12 months are displayed but each year’s values are shown as separate series. In this way, the…

For developers who use the agileBase API to create and update data within agileBase from a third party product, there’s now a way to further automate the process. agileBase will now generate a swagger.io compatible API description of any table you want to post to – that means if you deal with accounts for many…

Here’s a neat feature we think people may like – the ability to embed charts into data entry forms. You could for example show sales trends for a product, most popular products for a customer, burndown charts for a project, stock level history for an item etc. – anything someone may want to see when…

Continuing one of our main focuses this year of making the system easier to use for partners, developers and other people administrating large agileBase systems, we’ve made taken a few steps out of the new user onboarding process. When an admin sets up a new user, part of the process is to give them a set of…

When integrating agileBase with third party systems, the API is really useful. Programmers can use it to send data to websites, to other software such as PowerBI, a  Business Intelligence tool, or to external systems such as label/barcode printers for example. The opportunities are endless. We now have a way to ‘push’ data from agileBase,…

We’re trying out a new search feature in agileBase. It’s a way to look across the entire agileBase account, covering all data you have in the system, be that people, organisations, products, recipes, staff, projects etc. etc. But it’s experimental, so we need your help to try it out – please tell us how it…

  What happens when you delete something from agileBase? Well, the content of all the fields in the record to delete will be logged, so that an administrator can find the data later if necessary, and the delete will go ahead. That’s assuming the combination of options on the table and your privileges allow it…