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Derek3 · 08-26-2020

Here’s a neat trick I played around with today. You can use a Workflow to create a word cloud from data in your app! Here’s an example app: https://www.appsheet.com/samples/Event-Management?appGuidString=85f9d9c6-17ae-40f4-ab3f-fbb04fabd8ce Follow th...

Derek3 · 03-12-2020

I published a new article about data organization for teams. It is available in the AppSheet help docs. Check it out! The article describes how to use a Google Shared Drive or an O365 SharePoint site to store data for your team. Using a shared data l...

Derek3 · 08-21-2019

I added a help doc describing the steps to create multi-page forms. Multi-page forms are commonly used to group similar fields and make it easier to navigate larger forms. For more information, check out the article in the AppSheet help docs: https:/...

Derek3 · 06-18-2019

I made a quick video showing how to connect your app to a MySQL database hosted in AWS. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!

Derek3 · 06-17-2019

This sample app shows an example for how to create a timer in AppSheet. Feel free to use any features in the example as a starting point to create a timer in your App. The app simulates a timer by using columns to log “Time Started” and “Time Stopped...

Derek3 · 09-03-2020

Hi Jerry, The relative file path in the “wordcloud” column of the spreadsheet needs to match the location and name of the file in your cloud storage. The 404 error occurs when there is a mismatch between those two pieces. First two things to look at ...

Derek3 · 08-28-2020

In this particular implementation, I used a workflow to create an html file that includes data from my app. Then I open the html file using the Chrome browser. So inserting the rendered image of the html file in AppSheet isn’t an option with the curr...

Derek3 · 08-27-2020

Good call! Added a video below.

Derek3 · 08-19-2020

Hi Muk, In terms of built-in functionality, there are a couple tools in AppSheet that can help. Webhooks allow you to send information to a REST API endpoint. However, you are not able to do anything with the response from the API. So these calls are...

Derek3 · 08-18-2020

I’m glad you were able to find the culprit. Steve is in fact an AppSheet Jedi! There is a team of people whose goal is to make the AppSheet learning curve as easy as possible, but sometimes you’ll find things like this that take some experimentation....

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