Integrating Quickbase and FastField

Quickbase has a long history bridging the gap between the field and office, across many industries. For instance, we keep construction projects on time. We manage on-site installations. We track health and safety issues to ensure compliance. In 2023, we added FastField to the Quickbase family to transform your mobile workforce. FastField is a powerful mobile forms solution that adds capabilities like signature capture, as well as image capture with annotation, to streamline your entire field workflow.  

Two products, bringing larger solutions together.   

In a recent study, we found that 58% of people spend less than 20 hours per week on meaningful work that drives results for key projects. The rest of that time is spent searching for data, often buried in a pile of spreadsheets. We have a term for this wasteful problem: Gray Work. Quickbase and FastField are two products designed to work together to crush Gray Work. 

Try it out  

Haven’t seen FastField in action for yourself yet? We’ve got you covered. Quickbase customers can now access a free FastField trial, with no commitment needed. It’s easier than ever to try out FastField, now that you can start the trial from within Quickbase.   

Data integration  

With Quickbase and FastField under one roof, our team has been hard at work on a two-way integration to connect the two platforms. Starting mid-August 2024, you will be able to click a button on one of your Quickbase tables to begin creating a corresponding mobile form in FastField.  

As you lay out your mobile form, you can exclude fields that are needed just for back-office logging and create a shorter, more focused workflow for your field workers. 

Going in the other direction, we are making it easier than ever to take data captured on mobile devices via FastField and store them in Quickbase. When a FastField form that was created from a Quickbase table is filled out and saved, the data is automatically saved to the Quickbase app. No additional set up required!

Dispatching a form  

Once you’ve created your mobile form in FastField, it’s time to put it to work. Dispatching is the process of assigning a task to an individual. Let’s take a solar company running safety inspections as an example – you’ve already got an inspections table set up in Quickbase, and you have a matching FastField inspection form created as well. It’s Friday, and you’ve planned out a schedule for the following week that determines which job sites each member of your field inspection team will visit, and when they need to be there. 

You can use our FastField connector in Pipelines to automate these dispatches and assign an inspection to an individual. You can even dispatch the form with some fields pre-filled, such as the site address and the date/time the inspector should arrive on site. All of this keeps expectations clear and keeps field workers focused on the task at hand. 

Administration 

We also have some new capabilities for administrators, to make it easy for a Quickbase account administrator to manage their FastField account as well: 

• Single sign-on: When accounts are connected, your users will be able to sign into FastField using their existing Quickbase credentials.  
• Easier access to billing: If you have an annual subscription to FastField, and you signed up for it with Quickbase, you will now be able to see your FastField billing info from the Quickbase Admin Console.  

With Quickbase and FastField together, you can get easy mobile access to your critical workflows and applications for field teams on-the-go. All while giving your back-office teams access to the data they need, when they need it. The integrations between Quickbase and FastField help to seamlessly connect your field and business operations. 

Learn more about how to access and use these integrations from these Help articles.