December 19, 2022

lizlynch
Staff

Deployment Time: 1:15 PM PST

Features & enhancements

None

Bug fixes

Item Description
Bug A bug has been fixed that was displaying nonsense text at the bottom of the App Info screen of a user's account.

Rollout changes

None

Preview announcements

Preview feature releases enable you to try out new app features that are not yet fully supported. See Product launch stages.

  • No new preview features were released today.

What's currently available in Preview?

The following tables summarize the preview features that are currently available.

Item Description
Feature AppSheet databases (Preview)

The new AppSheet database feature is now in preview release. An AppSheet database is a first-party, native data source for organizing and managing data powering AppSheet apps. An AppSheet database provides an easy and efficient way to build data models for any AppSheet app without needing to use an external data source solution such as cloud-based spreadsheets or databases.

For more information, see:

Enhancement Navigation improvements in AppSheet app editor (Preview)

The app editor includes navigation improvements, currently in preview, to facilitate the configuration of specific features. For example, the new Settings section in the left navigation gathers together all app-wide settings and makes it more intuitive for all app creators to find these types of settings.

For more information, see:

Enhancement Additional usability improvements in AppSheet app editor (Preview)

The app editor includes navigation and app setting improvements, currently in preview, to facilitate the configuration of specific features. The navigation improvements now include a secondary navigation panel that lets you quickly scan all of your components. In addition, there are more direct links in your View component to the table, column, or action that you want to check or edit. Finally, error and warning messages are more prominently displayed in the app.

For more information, see:

Feature AppSheet apps for desktop users (Preview)

The new desktop design, currently in preview, is optimized for desktop browsers, presenting a more complete view of information with a consistent organization and structure. The new desktop design lets users navigate their apps more easily and access information in context, and provides an efficient way to edit existing records without losing context. The legacy desktop design, enabled by default, provides an experience similar to the mobile and tablet device.

For more information, see:

The following features require opt-in to the AppSheet preview program. The AppSheet Preview program lets app creators try out new app features that are not yet fully supported.

Item Description
Feature 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.

Feature Chart Editor

App Creators can now make use of our new chart editor and the new and improved charts it can create. Learn more.

Feature Detail views

Rich text formatting is now available in Detail views. For details, see this announcement in the community.

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Craig_Clancy1
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Report Pagination.JPGCurrent Report redacted.jpgPlease note, since this latest release, with my previously working pdf workflow templates in Word, the pagination has become distorted and caused my clients and me some critical time delays. I have emailed support.

Wondering if anyone else has experienced similar?

Craig_Clancy1
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It is looking like the release has literally messed up over 200 workflow reports in my apps in some form or another  !!!!!!!

jyothis_m
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@Craig_Clancy1  I am also facing similar issue in the PDF generated. They were ok earlier, but recently all table alignment are messed up.

After update (column size changed not matching with template google doc. Also Table Border Width not uniform. Doesn't look good) @lizlynch 

jyothis_m_0-1671511020347.png

Before update

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jyothis_m
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Also i think this issue started from 16th or 17th December. May be in a update made during that time @lizlynch 

Craig_Clancy1
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I have only just now been able to communicate with support. They have just escalated to a 'senior specialist'.

Fabian_Weller
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Same here. Pagination changed somewhere between 15th and 19th December. I use Google Doc to create PDF.

The reason seems to be an update in the PDF generator from Skia/PDF m107 to Skia/PDF m108.

See also this post: https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/AppSheet-Q-A/Html-template-stopped-working-properly-after-Ap...

@Steve 

Aleksi
Staff

Let me check this from our automation devs if there has been any change lately that could affect like this. Are you using either Word or Docs as a template? 

Craig_Clancy1
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Hi Aleksi, it would seem both platforms at this stage. There is another thread running also with the same reported issues. Steve has commented on it to push ppl to support.

Thank you

jyothis_m
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Gold 1

@Aleksi I am using Google Doc as Template. Following are the issues i faced after the update

  1. Column Width does not follow the Template
  2. Table Border Width is not uniform, some columns have thicker border, some have thinner border. Spoils the look.
jyothis_m
Gold 1
Gold 1

@Craig_Clancy1 @Fabian_Weller A temporary solution for the column width issue that i found was to remove the merged cells from table. 

Hope the issue gets fixed soon.

Aleksi
Staff

Okay thanks for all. One of our devs will debug the reason.

Craig_Clancy1
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Unfortunately not possible to unmerge. I have over 200 templates.
I also have other templates with table lines at different thicknesses etc
etc
Thankyou for finding a solution though.
Lets hope they make a fix asap.
Aleksi
Staff

Thanks for these details!

Fabian_Weller
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Gold 1

@Aleksi thank you for helping with this problem. 

Aleksi
Staff

FYI.. our engineers are investigating/debugging the reason.

Craig_Clancy1
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@Aleksi Thank you sir.

Aleksi
Staff

Are you still seeing the same issue? There was a release in the converter which could have caused this behavior change and that release is now rolled back.

Fabian_Weller
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@Aleksi Solved. Thank you.

Aleksi
Staff

Good to hear!

jyothis_m
Gold 1
Gold 1

Yes. Its solved. Thank you 😊 @Aleksi 

Fabian_Weller
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Gold 1

The Problem is back...

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/AppSheet-Q-A/Html-template-stopped-working-properly-after-Ap...

The reason seems to be an update in the PDF generator from Skia/PDF m110 to Skia/PDF m111.