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Welcome to the AppSheet Community! We’re thrilled you’ve decided to explore our flourishing group of app creators who are here to find answers, share knowledge, and connect with each other.
Whether you’re brand new to AppSheet or already an expert, it’s our goal to provide a trusted space for you to achieve your goals alongside a global community of supportive and knowledgeable peers, industry experts, and AppSheet team members.
In this post, we’ll cover the key features of the AppSheet Community, how it’s organized, and how you can get the most value from it.
- Key features
- AppSheet Q&A
- Release Notes & Announcements
- Events
- Community Resources
- How to get the most out of the AppSheet Community
- Start with search
- Subscribe to stay up-to-date
- Don't go it alone
- Provide feedback
- Share your experience
Key features
There are a few key features of the AppSheet Community, with each feature offering different benefits and engagement opportunities:
AppSheet Q&A
AppSheet Q&A is an open discussion forum where you can ask or answer any questions about creating an app or using the AppSheet platform. All members of the Community can participate in these discussions, and you have the ability to “like” posts and comments, as well as accept a response to your post as a solution, as shown in the example in the screenshot image below.
This is where all members of the Community can provide feature requests and ideas to help make AppSheet even better.
We’ve recently rolled out a revamped, formalized process for how feature requests are curated, reviewed, implemented, and communicated with Community members, including a status that indicates where a feature idea stands in the process.
Tips & Resources is where you can find tips and tricks, top resources, and educational content to help you create successful apps with AppSheet. This section includes a few areas:
- Tips & Tricks: this is an open discussion forum for all Community members where you can find and share knowledge about building apps with AppSheet. We encourage you to share “likes” to show your appreciation for tips other members share. Here, you can also post interesting updates that the Community may find useful, such as an event, article, or video.
- Education: this page contains a library of expert-curated, educational resources on using AppSheet. Managed by the AppSheet team, the content you’ll find here includes learning resources, tutorial videos, and case studies at any stage of your app creator journey, whether you’re just starting out or you’ve already built a number of apps.
- Partners & Resellers: this area is only available to verified service providers or resellers of AppSheet under NDA, where you can access exclusive training resources, announcements, and content.
Release Notes & Announcements
In this section of the Community, you can access AppSheet Feature Release Notes and see the latest announcements, including platform updates and Community news.
To stay up-to-date, subscribe to receive notifications and/or email updates. You can receive notifications by subscribing to all release notes and announcements, or you can narrow it down by subscribing to only specific product areas using labels. More on managing notifications and subscriptions can be seen here.
Events
This area is dedicated to all AppSheet events, including a revamped series of Office Hours with AppSheet experts, as well as meetups to showcase app creators and their apps. Subscribe to Events to know what’s coming up next and to see sessions available on-demand.
Community Resources
Here, you can access helpful articles on topics like managing your account, contributing to the Community, and updating notifications.
There’s also a dedicated Community Feedback forum where you can ask questions and provide feedback about your experience in the AppSheet Community. We appreciate any thoughts you may have so we can continue to improve your experience and help you achieve your goals with AppSheet.
How to get the most out of the AppSheet Community
The AppSheet Community is first and foremost your Community, so to help make sure you're getting the most out of it as possible, here are a few recommendations on how to consume and engage with the content and opportunities available to you:
Start with search
A key feature of the AppSheet Community that will help you quickly find what you're looking for is search. Before you start a new post, see if someone has already answered your question using the search bar, located in the top right corner of your window next to your avatar. You can leverage advanced search filters to find posts by labels, keywords, content type, author, date, or if they have an Accepted Solution or not.
Subscribe to stay up-to-date
By personalizing your subscriptions and notifications, you can make sure you always know when there’s an update or new activity on a topic or discussion you care about, such as Release Notes, Announcements, or Events.
You can also manage how often you're notified with updates and if you'd like to receive emails. Learn more in this article here.
Don't go it alone
If you're unsure, confused, or unable to find what you're looking for, don't hesitate to ask a question in the Q&A forum, or join one of our Office Hour events. The global Community of AppSheet team members, peers, and product experts are willing and able to help you.
Provide feedback
A cross-functional team of experts at AppSheet refine the AppSheet product and your Community experience largely based on community knowledge and insights. Help shape the future of AppSheet by providing your feedback. This can be in the form of posts and votes in AppSheet Feature Ideas, the Community Feedback forum, or conversations during our events. We take your feedback seriously and deeply value what you have to say!
Share your experience
Are you an AppSheet creator? We'd love to feature your success stories, best practices, or lessons learned with the Community. No app is too “big” or too “small.” Leave a comment on this post or share your story in Tips & Tricks for an opportunity to be featured in one of our member spotlights. And if you’re not yet an AppSheet customer, please reach out to us here and someone from our team will be in touch!
As a final note, thank you to all the AppSheet users who have helped shape the AppSheet Community. We hope you will find it valuable and helpful for you as you continue to build, create, and innovate with AppSheet.
See you in the Community!
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I would prefer the previous community view that is more interactive and UI looks neat.
Right Now the view looks like this. To be honest it is very difficult navigate and scroll across.
I had to zoom out my browser to 75% to see everything at one place. Still just 4 topics per page only.
I m not sure what I m doing wrong, but it returns nothing with the same conditions.
I have a large cursor (just for webiner to make people easily recognize where my cursor is) , which could be blamed for this, but I prefer the tooltip will pop up at the top rather than botton, as it is hidden by cursor....
Thank you.
Wow! I think I can answer my own question but it's a pretty terrible answer. There ARE URLs for individual comments. For example, when I replied to @Koichi_Tsuji , I found the following little link in my comment:
I one right clicks on that link one can get the following URL:
But, so far, this is the only way I have found to identify the URL of a comment. 😞
I expected we could get full URL by hitting "permalink", but actually it does nothing.... Possibly broken?
@Koichi_Tsuji
It is a permalink, and the URL is given a parameter.
We can use this by copying it
But, I would like you to copy it to the clipboard.😯
@Kirk_Masden
It is annoying as we need to keep hitting "load more" quite a lot to view more posts... Ideally, more post to be listed by default and make it auto reload once we reach out to the bottom of the list, rather than manually hitting action button like this.
When we reply to a thread, such as this one, then click on "Home" at the top of the screen we see this:
Note that we only see the original post and statistics about how many people have reacted to it. What we don't see is who has commented and a quote of their comment, which is what happened in the old forum. I prefer the old arrangement.
I just quoted a part of a separate thread in a response to a comment:
Note that the only text that is visible is that of the URL. In the old forum, a partial quote would automatically be read it. I thought that was a useful aspect of the old system but it seems to be lost.
