¶ PVYbase | Getting started
As an alternative to Airtable, it allows everybody to create spreadsheet style with no-code databases and applications, which automatically generates the API and all its commands with an easy to use reference on the fly in the most common programable languages for a Frontend Application Developer, if a front-end is required:
- cURL
- HTTPS
- Javascript
- Python
You can build super fast intranets, client-portals, internal or external applications, using existing data within your organization or create new. The built-in Template Manager allows.
It does not only allow non-coders to create usefull applications for inhouse or in exchange with their steakholders, its also is an fact, that mostly in an organization a responsible departement person or project or product mananger, knows exactly what kind of data, data-sets he needs and want to query or share with other stakeholders.
PVYbase let you build and create what ever you like, and you can start from scratch or from the built-in template manager with over 150 Templates, organized in useful categories such as:
- Content Marketing
- Education
- Events
- Finance
- Health
- Hobbies
- Human Resources
- Local Business
- Personal
- Professional
- Project Management
- Real Estate
- Startup
In fact, you can create your own CRM or Inventory Tracker or Product Issue Tracker or Knowledge Base, Event Onboarding, Advertising Campaign Manager up to QA Test Scripts or Teacher Plans. The only limit is your imagination.
The fact, that internal peoples often knows exactly what kind of data they need to accomplish a task, they can create with no effort the structure of a new database, fill it, query it and from the moment they think, a front-end or web app would be nice for publication, they can give access to any web designer or coder, and thanks to the built-in tokenized API Generator, they can create in less time with much less effort an intuitive user interface for it.
¶ Organize your Projects into Workspaces
You can create unlimited workspaces, where you group and manage your projects, and you can invite existing users or new users into a particular project and limit his features by assigning a role with just one click. Each workspace can have different memmbers who collaborate with you on a database or project.
¶ Collaborate internal and external
You can not share your project internal or external, with or without password protection, you can also invite internal or external resources to your project.
¶ Versioning, Snapshots and Restore
The built-in versioning system keeps a track of all changes of all your involved users, let you snapshot and restore to a previous version, but also undo step by step certain actions or additions. Duplicate
¶ Built-in Notifications
With the notification system, you keep a track of your project invitations, joined new members and their actions and changes.
¶ Create or import Table with or without data
Beside of the import function if you like to switch from Airtables, you can always create a new table, parent or nested complete empty where you can quickly design the columns for it, or you can create it with or without date from following sources:
- Paste Table Date (.md, xlsx, sql)
- Import from .xml
- Import from .json
- Import from .csv
So you have all the options, to work with a data structure from other applications you use, and enhance it with more data and relations, and create exactly what you need, or design everything from scratch, with the simplicity of any normal spreadsheet editor. No SQL knowledge is required. Its ease of use and very powerful.
¶ Archive, Trash or Restore Projects
You can delete a base, archive and restore it. Based on your adminstration settings, you can empty the trashbin after a certain period automatically, or only manual.
¶ Share and Test
You can share a link to external users or developers of base you created, they can browse, filter, query but not alter data or checking the references for API calls. But they can download referenced Images, Documents and copy valuable informations.
¶ How a shared view looks like
Following PVYbase Table has been created and utilized to work with logistic companies world wide, transportin Dangerous Goods:
To keep it simple, we utilized PVYlnkr for a short link and scanable QR Code, which we printed on Purchase Order or Delivery Slip. Very helpful, if a truck driver coming from Shenzen over Kazachstan, lost the folder with the Material Safety Datasheets…
If you don’t want to let your customers know, that you are using PVYbase for it, you can also enable the slider on the share dialog to hide PVYlogo or you can protect it with an password.
¶ Automatic API Generation & Documenation
For each of your PVYbase Project, the System generates the API Documentation for:
- cURL
- HTTPS
- Javascript
- Python
So once your stakeholder has finished his data collection or just the structure accordingly alone or with his team, he can grant access to a Web or Software Developer, which can build relative quickly a front-end or backend for it, if required.
¶ Easy for Developer
If you decide, that your data shall come to Life as a Web Application, your internal or external Web or Software Developer, can create a stunning web app, but also real Apps for Desktop and Mobile Apps out of it. Of course you create with PVYbase not any Messenger app, but any data driven App, which also can handle any kind of queries, files or multimedia files, is possible with very little effort.
If you decide to make JavaScript Application, your Developer can create it in Visual Code Studio (or any oder IDE) and probably use Tailwind CSS for bootstraping the whole user interface for it.
If you go with Python, he probably also use Visual Code Studio in conjunction with Windmill Application.
¶ An Example:
A Glue Manufacture has over 800 mixtures, water based, 1K or 2K solutions, which bonds on different surfaces with different values or the application is different, based on Material A and Material B. Customer want to know, what is the best practice and the bonding strengthm and probably if there is an pre-treatment like primering necessary.
With PVYbase you can create an interactive Knowledge Base for a Website, including Datasheets, Tutorials, Videos and Images, and Technical Specifications to be searchable in correlation of various factors. And probably you can import data such the glue specifications, pot life, binding time from another Data Source and reuse such existing informations. And the cool thing is, the management for it is super simple with PVYbase.
¶ Let’s get started
¶ Start with the Template Library
In the following Video you see how fast you can create your project out of one of the 150 Templates
¶ Start from Scratch
Learn how quick you can create something use full from scratch
¶ Invite co-working mates
It’s always good to have some contributors or reviewers. So let’s invite them
¶ Share it with a client/customer
Once you have your data ready, so its filterable or searchable, you can share it easy with a client, partner or even embedd it to your website or into another application.
¶ Read the docs
PVYbase User Manual
Developer Manual