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Hi app creators! Welcome to our monthly Community Roundup series. Check out our latest AppSheet Community news, upcoming events, top contributors, and feature updates.
Attention new app creators! Join us on July 26th for a live guided course on AppSheet essentials
Join the AppSheet team for a guided course taking you step-by-step through building an app in the AppSheet platform, plus the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers live.
During this course, you’ll gain experience with many fundamental skills used in the AppSheet platform. At the end of the course, you’ll have built an intermediate-level app and gained the AppSheet knowledge needed to create a wide range of useful apps to enhance your business.
August 4th: See you at Office Hours on app lifecycle management
Join us for AppSheet Office Hours on August 4th, where our experts will share best practices and recommendations for managing your apps from idea to impact, including:
- The key stages of app lifecycle management
- Managing end users and app collaborators
- Managing app versions and upgrades
…and more!
As always, you’ll have the opportunity to ask any questions (even if they’re not directly related to the session topic) and receive answers live from AppSheet experts.
Save your spot and ask questions in advance here.
Have a topic you want us to focus on for our next Office Hours? Please let us know in the comments!
App template of the month: Simple scheduler
With the Simple Scheduler app template, you can quickly spin up an app for users to claim appointment slots based on your availability.
With the Simple Scheduler app, you can display available time slots with multiple hosts, manage appointment requests, automatically send notifications to users, and bulk manage time slots by importing CSV files of dates/times.
Copy and customize the app template here!
Have an app template you want to be featured in the next Community roundup? Please share in the comments!
Community tip of the month: How to update app records with a push of a button
We're continually impressed with all the tips and tricks members share in the AppSheet Community. Taking the time to share your knowledge, lessons learned, and recommendations goes a long way in helping app creators accomplish their goals with AppSheet. Thank you!
This month, we wanted to highlight this tip from @MultiTech on how to implement a “Quick Update System” inside your app so you can solve questions like this:
- “How can I update a parent record when a child record is changed?”
- “How can I mark all the line items in an invoice as paid when I mark the invoice as paid?”
- “If I have App Formulas inside a physical column, how can I get those to update like a virtual column?”
- "How can I recalculate formulas with a push of a button?”
Product updates and release notes
Here’s an overview of AppSheet product updates and enhancements over the past month. To stay up-to-date with the latest, make sure you subscribe to Release Notes.
Visualize app data using Data Studio (rollout)
As an app editor, you can now visualize your app data using Data Studio (currently in preview). Previously, only app creators were able to use this feature. See Manage app permissions for individual users to manage app permissions.
Removing Save and Notify options from Save menu (rollout)
To minimize confusion, we have removed the Save and Notify option from the Save menu. You can still broadcast a notification to users from the Manage > Broadcast Notifications pane.
Support multiple parameters in an API path
For Apigee data sources, the OpenAPI Spec Apigee connection now supports multiple parameters in API paths that are defined in an OpenAPI Spec. For more information, see Support multiple parameters in an API path.
Manual configuration of an Apigee data source now supports write operations
Previously, manual configuration of an Apigee data source only supported read operations. Now, write operations are supported. For more information, see Use an Apigee data source.
What’s available in preview
The Preview Program is where AppSheet app creators can try out new app features that are not yet fully supported (learn more and how to get started here). Here’s what’s currently available in the program:
- Table view: Table View now supports freezing the first column while scrolling horizontally. For details, see Freezing the first Column of a Table View - in Preview Program.
- Chart Editor: App Creators can now make use of our new chart editor and the new and improved charts it can create. Learn more.
- Detail views: Rich text formatting is now available in Detail views. For details, see this announcement in the community.
For the complete and most up-to-date details on product updates, see the Release Notes forum here.
Top five contributors in June
We love to see how many of you are eager to participate in the Community's discussions. Let’s take a quick look at who contributed the most by replies authored and topics published in the month of June. Please meet our top five contributors:
Thank you to our top five contributors! as well as @Aurelien , @WillowMobileSys , @TeeSee1 , and @Suvrutt_Gurjar, who each authored more than 20 solutions this month. We love to see it, thank you! 😀
Are you ready to become our next top contributor? Learn all about how to contribute to the Community here.
Top three conversations in June
Here are our most popular discussions in the Google Cloud Community over the past month:
- Reverse Many-to-Many (Accepted Solution!)
- Evaluate for true vs. false/blank or for false vs. true/blank
- If ISBLANK or "" (Accepted Solution!)
Looking for more topics and discussions? Visit the AppSheet Q&A or Tips & Tricks forums to join the conversation or start something new.
🚀 AppSheet Community feature updates in June
The Community team continues to work hard to improve the Community based on your valuable feedback. Below is an overview of the recent updates to our Community features. Let us know what you think of these updates with a comment below! We’d love to hear from you.
Notification bell
We are thrilled to announce the immediate availability of the Notification Bell! With the Notification Bell, we hope to provide you with quicker access to your latest notifications without having to go to the notifications page every time.
The Notification Bell can be found directly to the left of your profile picture on the top right corner of the screen. As you navigate through the Community, you’ll be alerted to any new notifications via the red circle and number over the bell icon as shown in the image below.
For more details on the Notification Bell, please review the announcement post.
Help text for preference options
Within “My Settings>Preferences>Preference Options,” added a hover over icon that provides help text to explain the impact of enabling or adjusting the various options.
Solution accepted notifications
When there were multiple replies on a topic and only one was marked as a solution, each user that had a reply was getting a notification that their reply was marked as a solution. This has been fixed so only the person who commented with the accepted solution receives that notification.
For more information, see the June Release Notes post here.
We hope you enjoy our new feature updates and thank you to all our Community members who continue to make this space an engaging and informative place to be. If you have any feedback, please feel free to add your thoughts to the Community Feedback forum here or add a comment directly to this post.
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Thanks everyone. Until next time!
The Google Cloud Community Team
