Customized page header.
Normally, all the decorative elements on your application pages are generated by QuickBase and don't relate directly to your own working environment. But if you've created an application for a specific group or company, you may want to change some page elements to better reflect who's using your application. You may also be looking for a way to add a hyperlink to help viewers open a special web site, like your own corporate site or a page on your firm's intranet.
Only the application manager can customize an application display. You can't make a lot of changes, but those elements you add help make your application more personal and useful.
You can change:
Colors in the header: You can change the background color of the banner that appears at the top of your QuickBase pages, as well as the color of any text you enter in the right and left elements.
Left and right header elements: You can replace or eliminate the elements that appear in the left and right corners of the header. Left and right elements can be text or images, and you can choose to create hyperlinks with these, to link your users to helpful web pages.
Right-side options on the QuickBase menu: These menu options include the sign out link, the alerts flag, and the My QuickBase button. You can choose to keep these options, or eliminate them entirely.
Customized page header.
Text, images, and links in the footer: You can add a bottom right footer element, allowing you to add text or images to the bottom right of your pages. Like the header elements, the footer elements can be hyperlinks to other web pages.
Text and images in your email notifications and report subscriptions: You can customize your email notifications and report subscriptions by adding text and images to the top of these email messages
If you want to add an image to your header or footer, or to your email notifications or report subscriptions, you must provide QuickBase with the URL, or the location on the internet where the image resides. This means your image needs to be stored in one of two places:
Somewhere on the internet. There's one potential problem with this approach: Your viewers may receive a warning when they access your application. If the image lives on a non-secure site (the URL begins with HTTP instead of HTTPS), the user's browser displays a warning message that not all items on the page are secure. This may alarm and perplex users who fear that displaying non-secure items (like your image) would make their computer vulnerable to a virus or worm.
As a file attachment within one of your application records. If you store your images this way, you must ensure that the table that stores these images is accessible by everyone on the internet.
Tip: You can obtain the URL of an image stored as a file attachment in QuickBase by opening the record where you stored the picture as an attached file. Click the link to open the attached file and copy the URL from within your browser's address bar. (You can also right-click the link and select Properties to display the URL.) Paste the full web address in the desired element link field under Custom Page Banner.
To navigate to the Customize Page Banner page:
On any application page, select Customize > Application.
On the Properties tab, click Branding to expand the section.
Turn on the Custom header & footer checkbox. QuickBase displays additional fields you can use to change your application's appearance.
Make your changes, then click the Save
button at the bottom of the page.
To hide menu options on the right side of the QuickBase menu bar:
These instructions will hide the Signed in as menu, the alerts flag, and the My QuickBase button that appear in the upper right corner of your application pages.
Click the Header tab.
Select the Hide QuickBase standard
menu options checkbox.
To add text or images to your header or footer:
Click the appropriate tab (Header or Footer).
Use the Left Element and Right Element boxes to enter the text or image location. (Note that you can enter only a Right Element for the footer.)
To add text: Type the text in the Left Element or Right Element boxes.
To add an image: Type the URL of the image in the Left Element or Right
Element boxes.
To add a hyperlink to a header or footer element:
Click the appropriate tab (Header or Footer).
Click the link icon next to the Element box where you want the
link to appear.
For example, if you've entered an image in the Header Left
Element box and want that image to link to a web page, click
the link icon next to the Left Element
box.
Enter the web address for the target of the link.
For example, if the contents of the Left Element header
field read "ACME", click the link icon next to the Left Element box and enter the destination
URL that the user would visit if he clicked the ACME link.
To set header color preferences:
You specify custom colors for your header text and background using the Colors area of the Header tab. Type a color name for basic colors or enter a hexadecimal value in either of these boxes. (Hexadecimal values tell web browsers exactly what color to display by indicating alphanumerically how much red, blue and green the color contains.) Or, click the color chooser icon next to the Background and Text boxes to browse and select from the color options shown there.
Tip: To learn more about hexadecimal
values, and to see the complete list of basic colors you can enter, you
can read about web colors.
To add text or an image to email notifications and report subscriptions:
To add text or an image to email notifications and report subscriptions, select the Customize Emails checkbox. Enter the text or image URL that you want to display at the top of any emails that your application generates. Read more.