Query removal from Database view needs to wait until Export/Import/Global add/change moved to RE NXT!
Blackbaud just announced removal of query from database view in February 2026 - WHAT? - "That means you’ll no longer be able to create, edit, or run queries – or access the Query homepage – in database view. While functions like global changes, imports, and exports will remain available in database view, the core Query experience is fully transitioning to web view. " How will users be able to continue to create or edit new exports, global adds/changes or Imports without a query in the interim???? Care to advise???
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Melody Penner
- Jul 24 2025
- Reviewed: Voting Open
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- +211
Related ideas
Do not remove from web view at least until the export issue of duplicates is fixed, and all global functions are running correctly.
Query is not just used as a simple grouping tool to hand off data to Export, Reports, ect. No, Query is used frequently to filter records that need to be cleaned up and adjusted.
Within Query we are regularly opening records and accessing various places on these records to perform needed edits. Why? Because some edits just can’t be done with a Global change/add and creating an Import file is not always practical. As there are many fields which still cannot be adjusted in the Unified View, prematurely shutting off access to Query in database view will make performing needed tasks difficult and unnecessarily burdensome to the customers (us) of Blackbaud.
Customers will now need to have the query open in Unified view and then also have the Database view open to perform such needed tasks -- Unified View Query to filter and group the records on one screen, and Database view on the other screen so we can manually look up and open each record to perform the necessary tasks.
It's a pain to continually flip between the two view of RE while working on projects. It would be nice to have Export fully functional in webview before query is only available in webview so users don't have to keep switching between the views and translating the changes between field names (Fundraiser/Solicitor, Opportunity/Proposal, etc.).
Query in webview also cannot yet display inactive Funds, Campaigns, Appeals, which is VITAL for our historic searches.
February 2026 is not a realistic date. Until all fields and functionality in database view are in web view, and Blackbaud understands the reason for each and every one of them, you are not ready to discontinue database view. Expect to hear a lot about this from attendees at Bbcon in October 2025.
Having Export/Import & Global Changes are not the only reason to hold off on removing database view query. There are certain fields that are not in web view yet (like fund relationships). And there is no way to mass update funds for these even in database view. So the only way I have to update these records, as funds can and do change for scholarships, is to use query in database view and manually change the fund on hundreds of records one by one. Query in database view cannot go away until this "Unified View" is built out more fully AND completely.