Search problem in editor

[Kirk_Masden]

The relatively recent addition of a search column to the AppSheet editing interface is extremely useful. However, today I noticed a rather serious problem. In a very large app, it takes quite a while for the editor to filter the columns, etc. It tries to begin the filtering process while you are typing so, for the first letter, the editor seems stuck. What’s worse is that in DATA --> Columns part of the interface, if you just forge ahead and keep typing you may wind up changing the name of a column and breaking your app (this happened to me today):

After typing in the “C” as shown above, the next thing I knew, my cursor was on a column name, ready to change it if I kept typing.

I’ve confirmed that this happens in both Chrome and Safari on my Mac.

A workaround is to type your search term into a text editor, copy it, and then paste it into the browser.

Given this problem, I would prefer having to hit “return” when I’m ready to search. Or, perhaps the interface can be adjusted so that the cursor will not jump to a column, etc.

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Addendum

Simply preparing this post led me to break my app again:

If you see “Schedule headingj” above, that was originally “Schedule heading”. If all I had to do to fix the problem was to change it back, that would be one thing, but the name change led to other problems:

I’ve fixed the problem now but I’m not a happy camper. Please be careful of this sort of thing when you edit large apps.

[macastan]

Hi Kirk,
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​I was able to reproduce the issue. This was a bug on our side and I’m sending a fix with the next deployment. Thank you for reporting it and apologies for the poor experience.

Maria

[Kirk_Masden]

Great news! Thanks @macastan! I’m a happy camper again!

Actually, I noticed another editor interface issue:

Editor gets funky with big apps? Questions

As you can see in the following, I had great trouble navigating in the editor. I was using Chrome on a Mac. The GIF is small but I hope you can see that the interface kept going beyond where I wanted to go. I tried to drag it but the same overshoot problem occurred and I couldn’t find a way to stop it. Ultimately, I had to type in the name of the column I wanted in order to edit it – not the best option. [Funky_editor] P.S. Safari is better in regard to this issue on my machine but, of co…

I wonder if this is or is not related. It was suggested that I should write to support@appsheet.com but I’ll refrain from doing that if you are already aware of it.