Anyone feel like their app is gaslighting them?

AppSheet AppSheet Q&A
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Today I’ve been experienceing… how can I say… weird things happening in the editor.

For instance:

  • Formulas just not working
    • all the data is there and appropriate - yet the output results in a blank
  • Formulas producing the incorrect result
    • I’ve got a slice with 3 records in it, yet a COUNT() is producing 11 (?!?)
  • newly created rows not showing up
    • after maybe a minute or so they’ll just suddenly appear
  • action presses not actually doing anything
    • I press the button, there’s a ripple animation showing that I pressed the action, yet nothing happened.
      • this is for actions of several different types (composite, data, navigation), some with conditions some without
  • Slices not including newly created rows

In short: it’s like someone let some gremlins loose (^_^)

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All these interactions are through the emulated app inside the app editor.

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The cashier registered your request, but the cook was busy taking a bong rip and didn’t hear it.

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haha; but seriously, this has been going on all day. It’s driving me crazy; I do something… but the results aren’t there, but sometimes they are, or suddenly appear.

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Hmm, that sounds wierd Matt.

We’re making no changes on our side. Haven’t seen any reports of problems.

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One thing that is really pesky is that the action and view names force changes to something other. The other night I spent 15 minutes setting up a name for an action, because for some unseen unfortunate circumstances, it kept changing and correcting all by itself.

Also I have experienced some, if not all, of the above described points. Like the columns not suddenly being included in a slice, not showing up in the view made from a slice.

These are not grave problems that can become too big of a deal, but these for sure are pissers and the poor keyboards and mice take the heat.

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I experienced the same thing with virtual columns yesterday, added a virtual column and when I did the third word of another virtual column 3 rows up kept deleting itself. Finally managed to get it working after make a diffferant change, saving. Reclosed browser and re opened editor.

was strange but is very difficult to report.

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Have a look at this,

[Security filters Invalid type "Unknown"](https://community.appsheet.com/t/security-filters-invalid-type-unknown/36862) Questions

Can someone let me know why This won’t work in a security Filter? [Screen Shot 2020-12-24 at 8.46.48 PM] I know the formula is correct, I have the same formula working in other parts of app, just trying to implement into security filter. What am I doing wrong?

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What was really annoying about all the points described above, was the newly created records not showing in the app - at least until an arbitrary amount of time passed.

  • Maybe 30 seconds, sometimes longer but never longer than a minute - though I wasn’t timing and keeping track so that’s all extrapolation.

I was going to report it to support, but every time I went to make a video showing the behavior it wouldn’t do it! (Of course!) haha

It seems to have cleared up