Agilebase platform blog: recent updates

As well as the headline feature, one other notable feature has made the cut for today’s release. In line with our continuing rollout and promotion of two factor authentication, it’s now required for all users who want to export any data to spreadsheet. As a sensitive feature in terms of data security and privacy, exporting…

We know that many customers are looking forward to the contents of this update. We’re now starting to make good on the promises of the 2020 roadmap and can release one of the headline features – inline editing. As this is a major feature, it’ll be introduced with a ‘beta’ label for keen early adopters…

agileBase’s API is a very powerful yet easy to use feature. Each view gets an automatically generated API, with a URL that third parties can use as a data source. Our documentation covers generic use, however one of the most common methods of pulling data into other systems is to use Zapier, which is a…

Our ambition is to create a Low Code / No Code platform that can support truly ambitious organisations to build their back office across the three phases of their development; startup, scaleup and growth. Since agileBase’s inception we’ve had the good fortune of working with a wide range of successful customers. Some have have been…

As 2020 draws near, we’re excitedly preparing a roadmap of all of the sci-fi style features that are planned to become part of the agileBase platform. That will be released soon. While it’s in progress, here’s a quick rundown on some interesting stats and features from the year to date. Actually, to start with, we…

As part of our continuing drive to improve the security of data stored in agileBase, we’re taking another step in the push to promote two factor authentication to all users. This post is for system administrators who support agileBase users, to give you information about what’s happening. If you’d like more background information on what…

We’ve long been fans of Zapier and over recent years many customers have made lots of really useful integrations. The combination of agileBase and Zapier allows you to not only develop back office systems quickly but also link them into the wider ecosystem of cloud applications, all without writing a single line of code. We’re…

As a companion post to the update for users here https://blog.agilebase.co.uk/2019/10/01/big-changes/, this post for system administrators explains how to customise the new features in this release. Navigation menu administration As a reminder, views can be organised into groups by adding the group name into the viewname, with a dash separating them – see the last…

Over the summer, we’ve been concentrating on making the agileBase user interface the best it can possibly be. We’ve run UX workshops, organised testing by people who’ve never used the system before and brainstormed a number of design ideas. In August we introduced many small tweaks to improve the friendliness of the system. Now we’re…

Recently a partner said to us ‘You know, some of your customers are actually using agilebase as an engine to power their business, in ways that go beyond simply building applications.’   And it’s true, agileBase is being used not just to deliver user-facing apps, but to act as a central store, processing data which is…