QuickBase API Cookbook v3 - Recipe #27
Show a message when records are added or modified
add change event notification
You want to be notified in a message box when a record is added or modified in a table

require 'QuickBaseEventNotifier'

# show a message when a record is added or modified in the QuickBase Community Forum
QuickBase::EventNotifier.watch("username","password","bbqm84dzy") 
QuickBaseEventNotifier.rb comes with the Ruby API for QuickBase. This class maintains a list of QuickBase table changes to watch for, how to be notified of the changes, how frequently to check for the changes and when to start and stop checking.  It can stop checking after a specific number of checks, or stop checking after a specific number of successful checks. It can also check for records changes that only meet certain conditions. It can run also any Ruby code when an event occurs.  It can be used as a simple alternative to email notifications from QuickBase.

The above example will check the QuickBase Community Forum every minute for new or modifed records. If a record is added or modifed, it will display a message informing you of the event and a button to launch the QuickBase Community Forum in your default browser.
watchCommunityForum.rb
One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows Ruby wrapper for QuickBase HTTP API
Created on Jan. 30, 2007 at 10:19 PM (PST). Owned by Quick Base.
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When you bring additional fields into a conversion, Quickbase often finds inconsistencies. For example, say you're converting your Companies column into its own table. One company, Acme Corporation, has offices in New York, Dallas and Portland. So, when you add the City column to the conversion, Quickbase finds three different locations for Acme. A single value in the column you're converting can only match one value in any additional field. Quickbase needs you to clean up the extra cities before it can create your new table. To do so, you have one of two choices:

  • If you want to create three separate Acme records (Acme-New York, Acme-Dallas and Acme-Portland) click the Conform link at the top of the column.
  • If the dissimilar entries are mistakes (say Acme only has one office in New York and the other locations are data-entry errors) go back into your table and correct the inconsistencies—in this case, changing all locations to New York. Then try the conversion again.

Read more about converting a column into a table.

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