Agilebase platform blog: recent updates

We’ve been expanding our help guides and documentation recently and have split up the articles into three areas end user – general usage help and tips administrator – for administrators building apps in agileBase developer – for people integrating agileBase with third party systems, or developing more advanced uses such as custom output templates Log into…

Another quick update, developments are coming thick and fast this month. The comment stream is one of the most integral parts of agileBase, tying everything together and giving people an overview of what’s going on in the organisation that’s relevant to them. Now you can quickly filter down the comments to a specific area, for…

At agileBase we see our mission as helping companies in their journeys of growth and change. Some examples are growth by acquisition, setting up new ventures or simply organic growth over a number of years. Our longest-standing customer has tripled turnover to £80m over the past ten years, grown in staff to five hundred employees and…

This week we release a new feature that lets you automatically pre-populate field values for new records, using calculations or lookups. Here are a couple of uses that trial customers have already found: For a purchase order app, when entering a new purchase order, the system looks up the previous price and quantity purchased and pre-populates them.…

Every now and again we like to take a step back to talk about what ‘the cloud’ means for entrepreneurs and businesses, and why the agileBase platform exists. Especially for people new to agileBase, here’s a nice summary of the benefits of working online, with a fast + flexible + friendly = agileBase cloud platform to manage…

A quick update for this week – we’ve been using Font Awesome for a while in agileBase as it gives a great range of icons that you can use for your apps. There are so many icons that there’s something for everything, and their nice clean designs fit in well with the agileBase look and feel.…

It’s about eight years in to the development of the agileBase platform and every now and again we still add a major new feature. Today is one of those occasions. In brief, the system can now assign users and groups to individual data records anywhere in the system. So for example, if you want to take…

We’re pleased to announce the addition of a new chart type to our lineup (bar charts, scatter diagrams, time series, pie charts, maps etc.) Heatmaps have recently been launched, powered by our charting technology Highcharts. Heatmaps are two-dimensional and show correlations between two variables.   Adding a heatmap is really simple. Create a new chart…

In agileBase, you can add a comment to any table of data in the system. Usually this is used for simple collaboration – lots of people want to discuss a particular item, say the design of a marketing brochure being produced, or a sales opportunity. As each person adds their comments, they get recorded in…

We have a new help system, containing lots of articles, blog posts and videos showing how to use various features of agileBase, particularly concentrating on the administrative side of things. To access it, just log in to agileBase with the username ‘help’ and the password ‘help’. You may also see a help link at the bottom…