What is the QBSW (QuickBase Service Worker)?
What is the QBSW (QuickBase Service Worker)?
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What an excellent and timely question. I am happy to provide some information on this Forth of July holiday as Service Workers are the greatest QuickBase innovation to date. You many not completely understand the first eight pages of the attached pdf document but have a look at the second from last page as it lists a wide range of features you can implement today with QuickBase and Service Workers.
I will be providing demos of each of the listed features. If you have a request you feel matches one of these features let me know and I may well implement your request as part of the demos.
I will be providing demos of each of the listed features. If you have a request you feel matches one of these features let me know and I may well implement your request as part of the demos.
- Hey!
I was wondering if the mentioned pdf document was still available somewhere? I would really like to know more about Service Workers integration in Quick Base!
Cheers,
Adrien - I still have the document. It is dated July 4 2016 and a lot of things have changed (for the better). Service Workers is god mode for QuickBase - no kidding here. Email me if you want more information.
- Hi,
We're in process of getting started with QuickBase and I'm very interested in getting my hands on a document showing what this Service Worker can do? What are the prerequisites to get it up and going? Are there any out-of-the-box tools designed for QuickBase that we can use to track changed records?
Thanks,
Freddy - The Service Worker document I created was attached as a pdf in the old forum in this thread. It was dropped when QuickBase moved to get satisfaction for their forum. So I added the page images later in this post.
If I were you I would get up to speed on native QuickBase. When you then encounter something you can't do natively Service Workers will save the day. Service Workers is god mode for QuickBase.
I am so busy during the summer I probably will not post much more on Service Workers till September 13 when Microsoft should be announcing their implementation at the Microsoft Edge Web Summit. Rather unexpectedly, Apple just announced support in an alpha channel for .Service Workers support in Safari. Chrome, FireFox and Opera already have support for Service Workers.
My document emphasized using the network proxy capabilities of using Service Workers with QuickBase. However, Service Workers can be used to create PWA (Progressive Web Apps) that operate like installed native apps (ie Android, IOS) and include features such as:- offline operation
- background sync
- push notifications
- add to homescreen
- access to peripheral devices
