Agilebase platform blog: recent updates

Server performance has been given a boost thanks to the munificence and investment of our cloud host Linode. They’ve installed SSD storage in our London datacentre, which has resulted in a two to three times speed boost. SSD (Solid State Drive) storage is faster than standard disk drives because data isn’t stored on physical spinning disks, but purely…

Just a quick feature update today – this is something that a lot of customers have asked for, so we’re turning it on by default for all accounts. If you’d like to disable for any reason, please get in touch. We’ve added the ability to work through a list quickly by pressing next and back…

It’s getting busy here at agileBase and every now and again a customer requirement feeds into a bit of product development to improve the platform for everyone. This month we’ve had two customers ask for the same thing so that’s just been released and here it is.   The idea is to allow you to…

  Mapping in agileBase has expanded support from UK postcode-based mapping, to any address recognised by Google Maps. With an increasing number of customers with global operations, this is an obvious step to make. All new addresses will be looked up using Google and locations stored in our own database for quick lookup in the…

We’re excited to be testing an experimental feature – auto-tagging of records which have attached documents, website URLs, comments or general text content. Auto-tagging will automatically add topics, ‘social tags‘ and people to these records. To explain with pictures, here are a couple of examples of automatically annotated records. A link to a news article (click the image to expand it): and a document from…

We’ve recently increased the security of agileBase’s encryption a notch by removing some older SSL cipher mechanisms – in line with current best practices, only the most modern methods with no known flaws are used. The benefit is that data in transfer between a client’s web browser and the server is known to be as…

Our post last week announcing that we now have practically one-click integration with hundreds of cloud services, via Zapier, seemed to touch a chord, with some great feedback on twitter. People have been asking us how we embrace other services and whether other close-knit integrations are possible. The answer is yes, there are many integration…

If you want to send a record (such as a contact, project, task, recipe or whatever your data is) to someone for discussion, just click the ‘share’ link at the top and an your email app will open ready-populated with a link to the record. Email sharing will be enabled by default for any new…

Sometimes in compliance environments, your software needs to track changes to fields by individual people, particularly sign-offs. agileBase always keeps a complete history of user changes behind the scenes anyway, accessible to system administrators, but now we’ve introduced a way of making sign-off actions visible on the user’s screen, so everyone can see quickly when…