Provide an APPSETTINGS[] list similar to USERSETTINGS[]

[WillowMobileSys]

I would like to request to add a list of settings that are user updated but apply to the application across the board to all users. This would be similar to USERSETTINGS. In fact, I would recommend changing the “User Settings” tab in the editor to simply “Settings” and then have a “_PER USER SETTINGS” list of values and then a “_PER APP SETTINGS” list of values.

I do understand that the same thing can be achieved by adding a sheet with these values. But the difference is how we reference them. It would much easier and more efficient for the developers to access these application level settings like APPSETTINGS[“Name”] rather than using ANY(SELECT()) statements all over the app - even cutting and pasting becomes tedious.

[Josh_Klassen]

This would be awesome!!!!!!!

[Jamie_Laing]

This feature would be a massive improvement to AppSheet.  One of the big holes in AS is the inability to easily customize "preprod" environments.  In normal software development, you often have something like a list of connection strings in your app so you can easily point it to different data stores.  AppSheet - nothing like this that I could find, but a globally available list of variables in an Application Settings feature could solve this.  You'd just need to be able to call the variables within any scripted statement within AppSheet.  So instead of recreating your data sources to make an isolated app version, you'd just update the variables in the settings table.