Thoughts / Opinions / Plans / Ramblings

Dave and I will be presenting Cebase at Essential Web 2007. The event is on the 27th June at the BFI IMAX in London and will get the most exciting companies in the web 2.0 space together to showcase what Europe is up to and provide a great forum to meet some of the world most influential entrepreneurs, corporates and investors. If you’re attending the event, be sure to drop by and see our presentation!

Today we are pleased to announce that Cebase is now open to all! No more waiting in a queue to take it for a spin. You can now signup for an account and we’ll let you in right away. Click here to get yourself an account now!

There is now an easy way of backing up your data in Cebase. We have added a full data export feature that allows you to export all of the data in an application - including files and images. You can download your data in the Settings section of your application.

We’ve just send out the next round of beta invitation emails. So far we’re getting great feedback. The thoughts and comments we receive from current participants help us a lot to get the product to release. As a startup it’s nice to hear people appreciate your product. I cannot think of anything else that adds up to our own enthousiasm more than nice words coming from real users. Thank you very much!

A question I get asked alot by people that have not seen the demo movie (yet) is whether it’s possible to create relationships between lists. The answer is simple, YES you can!

In fact, this has been a key requirement since the day we started designing Cebase. We wanted Cebase to be a fully fledged database so that you can model your own data driven applications and create something that looks alot like a custom developed application.

There are basically two ways to create relationships, but they both come down to the same thing. I’m having a list of projects for which I also want to track tasks and documents in my example.

Adding a list to a form is probably the easiest method. When you are viewing a record, click on ‘Add List‘ in the toolbar.

Here you can provide the name and fields of the list to add to the form. What happens, is that a new list is created with a LINK field back to the project list.

This brings us to the other method which is to manually add a LINK field to your list. In the image below I’m simply creating a Documents list with a field named ‘Project’ which is a link to a project.

The system will automatically add a documents list to the project form so you’ll end up with something like this.

Ofcourse you can customize these lists any way you like, as I have done. Sign up for a beta account and try it yourself!

Stijn has just created a short demo movie that gives a pretty good impression of what you can do with Cebase.

He shows the main screens of cebase while demonstrating how to convert an excel spreadsheet containing events to an online database application and how it can be extended to keep track of attendees. 

If you have 5 minutes of your time to spare then go see it!

We’re opening up Cebase for a small group of beta users. If you would like to take Cebase for a spin then go to our homepage and fill in your email address in the beta registration area. Because of the limited number of available beta accounts, it might take a while (up to 3 weeks) before you receive your account information.

If you haven’t got the time to test drive Cebase yourself then check our blog in a few days as we will be posting a 5 minute demo movie that will give a good impression about all the features we have put into Cebase.