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 left side of the Settings tab that displays, click Branding.
Turn on the Custom Page Banner checkbox. QuickBase displays additional fields you can use to change your application's appearance.
To set header color preferences:
You specify custom colors for your header text and background using the Colors area of the Customize Page Banner page. You can 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.) You can also click the icon next to the Background and Text boxes to browse and select from your color options.
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 on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) site.
To add text or images to your header or footer:
On the Custom Page Banner page, 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 Web address of the image in the Left Element and/or Right Element boxes.
To add a hyperlink to your header or footer
On the Customize Page Banner page, click the appropriate tab (Header or Footer).
Make sure you've entered text or an image in the Left Element and Right Element boxes.
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 you type "ACME" in the field Left
Element header field and click Save, QuickBase
would display the text "ACME" in the upper left corner of
your page within the banner. Likewise, if you want to make that text
a hyperlink, click the link icon next to the Left Element header box
and enter the destination URL.
To hide right-side options on the QuickBase menu bar:
To hide the sign out link, the alerts flag, and the My QuickBase button that appear in the upper right corner of your application pages, select the Hide right-side options on the QuickBase menu bar checkbox.
To add text or an image to email notifications and report subscriptions:
To add text or an image to email notifications and report subscriptions, turn on 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.