January 2018 Release Notes
Here we go: Coming Jan 21st. https://www.quickbase.com/quickbase-blog/january-2018-release-notes New UI. Lots of purple. Lots of bug fixes with the rich text fields. New options for managi...
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Reports that before wrapped perfectly, now extend out further than the size of the page. When I scroll left, it keeps the left-most cell, and cuts off any text in the previous cell.
The green buttons are horrible and clash mightily with the grey/purple that has been added, and while I am ranting, what is up with the light grey and white buttons at the top? Did they test this with a usability group prior to making these changes? Was there multiple test groups that gave feedback to this? Can I see the reports that show that these are the changes users wanted and how the designers came up with this look?
The green buttons are horrible and clash mightily with the grey/purple that has been added, and while I am ranting, what is up with the light grey and white buttons at the top? Did they test this with a usability group prior to making these changes? Was there multiple test groups that gave feedback to this? Can I see the reports that show that these are the changes users wanted and how the designers came up with this look?
- I think someone from the Omaha School of Design thought it complimented Skype for Business well on their Microsoft Surface and called it good.
The colors, the font selection, the font smoothing. It's awful. - use control and plus or minus keys to increase or decrease the display size. Your reports will fit better. I currently have mine set at 90% where it was at 125%.
- This effects other sites and other QB reports though. How about just fix the issues and go back to the old UI.
- ^ Underrated comment.
- @Jim, thanks for the advice on the zoom, it does seem to work for the fonts. However, am I supposed to send an email out to all of our users to tell them that to display their reports correctly, zooming in and out MAY fix any funkiness to their reports?
I think the issue here is that there are way too many bugs to our liking as developer/administrators of QB applications. This is an enterprise application that should have thought much harder about their design and the user experience associated with it prior to publication. Who did they base these changes for, and why did these bugs get put on the back burner (because I am sure that they were aware of these issues, especially since the UI changes have been talked about for a few months). And if they didn't know about the bugs, it means that they chose not to do testing when they should have. - Agreed, it's a workaround until a fix gets put in place. I'm an admin/developer too. My comment didn't excuse the many errors made by this release but hopefully aided a user to solve a problem.
On a personal note I haven't seen this level of oops in a long time, it's epic but not unheard of, Shoretel comes to mind. I'm certain they'll get it together, or not. We'll move on and accept the changes, provide our user base with workarounds and look for alternatives as the price increases. This is what it means to embrace the cloud, disruption, change, progress! Hya! :) /s - @Jim,
Please open a support case and include screen shots of the issues you're having with reports. As you probably realize, reports are often huge and contain many different customizable options. It's hard to test all those combinations beforehand, so we're doing our best to iterate improvements. We appreciate your patience.
Sam Jones
QuickBase Product Manager
- Thanks @Jim!! It is awesome that we have this community so that we can get answers and problems (hopefully) resolved. As for the zoom thing, I think the reason this is the answer is because of the anti-aliasing styling that they went with. Seems to look sleeker the more one zooms in. As to how they are going to fix these UI errors, who know, but I definitely agree with you, this is a big oops, but it is all part of a bigger plan I am sure :)
