A glimpse at the configuration process for Qrimp. Quite painless.
Posted By
Randall
on
19-Jun-2008
If you'd like to download Qrimp for your local machine or a server behind your firewall, you'll run through the configuration process, so I put together a demonstration of that process to guide you through it.
View the Qrimp Configuration Demonstration.
We released new code with three great new features that make Qrimp even more flexible and easy to use.
Posted By
Randall
on
20-Apr-2008
Interfaces
Uploading Data is nice, but it's better when that data is managed with an intuitive interface. Many times, these interfaces can be inferred from the relationships in the data and the types of data. Qrimp has done this for one-to-many and many-to-many relationships for quite some time, but what about more complex data relationships? The Qrimp Interface Designer will examine your data and find new patterns in your data:
Spreadsheets and
Shopping Carts.
Spreadsheets are formed where there is a table with two foreign keys and a decimal field. These occur where you want to assign a value to a matched pair, for example, in a student gradebook, you'll want to assign a grade to a student for a particular course. In the spreadsheet view, you'll see courses along the top and students on the left. At the intersections, there will be a text box where you can enter a value for the grade. Click save at the bottom and you're done. There are more arrangements like this in the world. For example, you may have custom pricing for your products by pricing model. You can see this in our
CRM Demo.
Shopping carts are formed where you want to assign an item from one table in a many-to-many fashion when those items can be filtered by another foreign key. The example that lends its name to this pattern is where you want to allow users to add items to their shopping cart and those items are in particular product categories. Other examples include adding menus to groups. You might also add tasks to employees filtered by priority.
Query Builder
With the query builder, you can create custom queries that will return very particular data sets. You can also save these queries for later retrieval and custom business logic. With custom queries, there's no limit to the depth of reporting or filtering with Qrimp.
Import .xls files
It just got a lot easier to build applications with Qrimp. Just create an Excel spreadsheet with multiple sheets containing your data. Make the names of the sheets the table names you want to import and upload the file into the Import Data... page. As usual, Qrimp will examine the data for data types and relationships and create an enterprise ready Application automatically with the full power of a relational database.
Enjoy!
A description of the performance improvements in today's release
Posted By
Randall
on
16-Dec-2007
Today we released several performance improvements that dramatically reduce page load times. In some cases, these performance improvements can reduce load times by as much as 80%. This will allow the Qrimp Platform to scale even better.
We updated the messaging functionality, improved the appearance of error messages and improved table name validation.
Posted By
Randall
on
14-Dec-2007
While Qrimp has always had messaging functionality built in, it required specially configured tables for Contacts and Interactions. If these tables were not present, messaging wouldn't work when attempting to send external emails. Today, we updated the messaging functionality to allow sending of external emails even if these tables aren't in your Qrimp App. We also created a module that will allow us to add messaging to your Qrimp App very easily. If you would like to add messaging to your app, send a request to support at qrimp.com.
We also improved the appearance of the error messages by adding an icon to the left to help errors stand out. We also improved the error message that was displayed when entering text into a field that requires integers (numbers without decimals).
We performed more stringent validation on table names when creating new tables.
Finally, we improved the login page redirection so that it doesn't repeatedly add the redirect target if the user enters an invalid username and/or password.
Thanks to Bill for alerting us to these issues.
This new release adds menus for new tables automatically
Posted By
Randall
on
13-Dec-2007
Now, when you add a new table to your Qrimp App, you'll see the menus for that table built automatically. Once your table is created, you'll see a new menu tab with the same name as the table and a few sub menus including: Grid View, Calendar View (if there is a date field), Add New..., Form Field Layout, and Table Management (so you can modify the field names, change data types, or add a new columns easily.
Fixed a bug which was the result of complicated single table search queries
Posted By
Randall
on
12-Dec-2007
Tonight around 12 AM CST all sites will be updated to fix a bug that pops up if a particular combination of searches is performed on the same table using the search form light box. This same bug also caused problems when using the Add menu here... option to save a search result.
Now the results when performing multiple searches will repeatedly filter the result list. For example, if you first limit a result list by state, then perform another filter by city, the result will be only cities in the formerly selected state. If you'd like to filter the full list of items, click the
icon, then filter again.
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