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Hello AppSheet Community,
One of the teamโs goals is to make it easier for all app creators to build applications by bringing focus to the core concepts and tasks and by providing information and โshortcutsโ in the relevant context. We rolled out some of these changes in October and shared this initial announcement.
Weโre now excited to announce 2 new updates are starting to roll out today. They are follow-ups to the October changes.
First, weโre introducing a secondary navigation that lets you see at a quick glance all your components - whether weโre talking about is your data, your views, format rules, actions and automation components. This should also let you access any individual component more quickly.
As part of this change, suggestions will be available for all components and will be more targeted based on the context you are in (e.g. which Table you are creating a Format Rule for). Youโll also notice that error and warning messages are now shown via a status icon that is always visible in the header.
Secondary navigation menu (left) and Error & Warning status in header bar (top right)
Second, in the same spirit as earlier changes and to be able to make a specific edit to your app without jumping into a different context, there are more direct links in your View component to the table, column or action that you want to check or edit. For example, when you are working on a Deck View, you should not need to click 3, 4 or even 5 times just to check the settings of a column or of an action. This should make more obvious what is possible, especially for users who are new to AppSheet, and make navigation throughout your app components faster.
GIF showing accessing relevant components quickly and editing them on the fly
The secondary navigation menu and its associated changes will be available to everyone. Similarly to the primary navigation menu rolled out in October, you can revert to the legacy navigation patterns if youโre facing an issue. Details are in the FAQ section below.
Let us know if you have any feedback.
Thank you
The AppSheet Team
FAQ
How do I opt in and out of the navigational changes?
App creators can currently opt-in and out of the navigation changes at will. The changes apply to the App Editor experience, independent of the app you are editing. You can opt in and out by clicking on this icon in the top navigation bar.
Is there some documentation?
Yes, weโre updating the relevant pages in our documentation. Weโre also introducing a new page that summarizes the changes across the Editor. See Summary of improvements in the app editor (preview).
Where do I report issues and provide feedback?
Contact Support or directly in this thread.
Are you planning on maintaining the two navigation models?
Long term, no, weโre moving towards the new navigational model. For the next few months, we will support both navigation models as we make additional changes to how people navigate through the Editor. We want to work out the kinks before it becomes the only one.
When will the legacy navigational model be unavailable?
We donโt have a hard set date on this. That will depend on how fast we can work out the kinks in the new navigation.
Why donโt I see anything yet?
Weโre rolling out these changes progressively and it might take a few days to a few weeks before you can see them in your own account.
I provided some feedback on the previous changes (from October). Are you taking it into account?
We did read the feedback provided by our community. We may not have addressed it yet - whether itโs making an update or itโs deciding not to make any changes.
Please do something to make the Data view easier to navigate for apps with many tables and slices, like this one:
The above is not the entire list.
Unexpanding everything every time I navigate back to Data is untenable. Would much prefer it all start collapsed, or give me a "collapse all" button. Would also like it to preserve its state as I navigate away from Data and return. Ideally, it would preserve it across saves, reloads, and restarts, too.
On my app Desktop or mobile use a deck view with maintenance categories split into three slices, not started, in progress and complete.
In this view if I expand a category group, click on card it goes to a specific detail view using ID. When I go back each time from the detail view using back arrow, the groups in each slice are always all reset again...
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โi go back, using back button.
Is s this normal? As it's quite inconvenient if navigating in this manner.
I use click on card with a Linktoview however thought with the back button that the state of expanded group to still be intact. Initial view landing should always be collapsed.
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@audacious wrote:
I noticed this secondary navigation panel disappeared and I can't figure out why
Maybe you inadvertently toggled to the Legacy Editor? There is a button to switch back and forth. See image.
I assume by "secondary nav panel" you are referring to the circled portion in the image below?
I have been using the new Editor in all my apps and have not seen any issues with it at all. I don't really see the issue since it's really just a new UI on top of the already existing functionality. But....
