June 20, 2023

[lizlynch]

Deployment Time: 12:30 PST

Features & enhancements

Item	Description
Enhancement	Add views, actions, and format rules to your favorites You can now add views, actions, and format rules to your favorites. See: Add a view to your favorites Add an action to your favorites Add a format rule to your favorites This enhancement will be rolled out gradually. It is currently deployed to 25% of free users.

Bug fixes

None

Rollout changes

Item	Description
Feature	Email auto-completion is now supported for Email columns Set up email auto-completion for Email columns in your app and the database editor. See Set up email auto-completion for Email columns. Note: Email auto-completion in your app is only available to Google Workspace users in the same Google Workspace organization as the app owner. New: Deployed to 40% of all Google Workspace organizations. Previous: Deployed to 20% of all Google Workspace organizations.
Feature	Return values from webhook automations You can now use return values from webhook automations. See Use return values from webhooks. New: Deployed to 100% of free users. Previous: Deployed to 50% of free users.
Enhancement	AppSheet types respect multi-color formatting icons Previously, across all types, AppSheet would only allow a single color to apply to all icons rendered by format rules. Now, we are moving towards supporting color granularity as defined within each formatting rule so each icon can have its own color. With this change, for desktop UI (preview) only all types will now respect individually colored icons. New: Deployed to 100% of free users. Previous: Deployed to 50% of free users.

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: Community announcement AppSheet databases
Feature	Quick sync is now available to all users in preview Turn on Quick Sync for an app to instantly see other users' changes as they are saved. For more information, see: Community announcement Quick Sync property described in the Sync the cloud to your data source.
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: Community announcement Summary of navigation improvements in the app editor (Preview).
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: Further usability improvements: Simplifying the navigation in the editor Summary of improvements in the app editor (preview).
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: Community article Optimize the user experience using the new desktop design (Preview)

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.

[dbaum]

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@lizlynch wrote:

Add views, actions, and format rules to your favorites

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Another nice one!

[Koichi_Tsuji]

Probably, I will not use this new features....

"Favourite" should be given to "App user" instead of App Craetor.

IF we as App creators wish to add to add to the favourite, then we can do so with the currently available functionalities. 

Favourite should be decided by the end / app users, so not sure why Google is introducing this one, which is not less useful....

Technically and practically speaking, such option to add to favourite should be given to each app users, instead of app owners.... 

I m puzzled what sort of the new values Google wish to push by adding this so called new featuer..

[dbaum]

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@Koichi_Tsuji wrote:

I m puzzled what sort of the new values Google wish to push by adding this so called new featuer.

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FWIW, I envision favoriting a bunch of interrelated actions or views while I access them serially in the editor to change configurations in the the course of iteratively developing a new feature. It's like a manual equivalent of a "Recent" list.

[Koichi_Tsuji]

@dbaum 

Thank you for your clarity.  I probably mis-understood this new feature when I read through the announcement. Yes you should be right, this is addional feature in terms of app editor, not visible on the surface of the app and its users eyes.

[Arthur_Rallu]

Hi @dbaum @Koichi_Tsuji 

You are correct that this is a feature for app creators. We tackled this work based on @Rifad 's feedback when we rolled out the new navigation. He explained some aspects of the new layout made working on a group of actions/views/tables together challenging. The goal here was to let you decide what you want to focus on so that you don't need to click and scroll as much. 

[Rifad]

This is great improvement. This feature filled the gap between the difficulty in working on multiple tabs of action/views from old and new editor. Thanks @Arthur_Rallu for your efforts on this.

I wasn’t using new editor till now. I will be starting soon to go ahead and use the new editor from now on. Would really love to see more useful improvements like this in future.

[Rifad]

Actually few people like @Arthur_Rallu is reason I have hopes in appsheet after Google acquisition. Thanks for listening to our voice.

[Arthur_Rallu]

Thank you for the kind words Rifad.

Note that a lot of the credit goes to our UX and engineering. @benhare in particular made sure it happened. 

[Rifad]

Thanks again @Arthur_Rallu and @benhare. Love the fact that all favourites stack up one above the other. Soo much easier to work on.

Additionally, one more suggestion here. Look at the pictures below. Its bit difficult to differentiate two actions without a divider here. 

It will be much easier to work on actions if it has a division like below for two different actions/ux etc..

[benhare]

@Rifad I guess I thought that having the next header was divider enough, but I guess it can become a little tricky to tell if it's part of the "Documentation" section above or not. I don't think I'd want to go the route of the old editor and put them all in boxes, but instead have some kind of dividing line above the title. Let me ask our UX designer their opinion.