August 15, 2023

[lizlynch]

Deployment Time: 12:00 PM PST

Features & enhancements

Item	Description
Enhancement	AppSheet Core Security setting enforcement AppSheet Core is in the process of being included in Workspace SKUs (see this announcement). As part of this rollout, a new AppSheet Core security setting is being made available to Workspace admins. This setting will apply to all AppSheet Core users in their Workspace org, (including those who bought their own licenses on appsheet.com). When turned ON for a Workspace organization, these features will be disabled for apps owned by AppSheet Core users. This setting will be defaulted to OFF for organizations with existing active AppSheet apps as of early July 2023. Organizations with users that have created apps since then may have their apps blocked, as the security setting will be turned ON by default when rolled out for these orgs new to AppSheet since early July. This rollout will happen gradually. It is deployed to 20% of paid users. For more information, see: - Community announcement - Set the AppSheet Core security setting - Error: Workspace AppSheet Core security violation - Error: OutgoingEmailAllowListViolations
Feature	Visual editing tools now available in the app preview We are excited to roll out our first visual editing features to all AppSheet creators, starting today. This a new way for AppSheet creators to make changes to their apps and navigate the editor. It’s intuitive for anyone to point at what they want to change if they can see it. Turn on the Edit toggle to use the visual editing tools while previewing the live app. ![lizlynch_2-1692135494331.png

Bug fixes

Item	Description
Bug	Fixed a bug with desktop UI (preview) sync menu not showing error status when sync fails.

Rollout changes

Item	Description
Enhancement	For desktop UI, add Feedback Form to side navigation. New: Deployed to 100% of free users. Previous: Deployed to 50% of free users.
Bug	Update Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari Time, Date, and DateTime inputs to use corresponding input types instead of Text input type. New: Deployed to 100% of free users. Previous: Deployed to 75% 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	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.
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.

[Amjad]

action doesn’t work on form submission on the desktop users (Preview). It works on the mobile view .

[amyplin]

@Amjad Hello! Could you send me a direct message with your app details and how to reproduce your bug so I can take a look?

[Koichi_Tsuji]

@lizlynch

Feature

Visual editing tools now available in the app preview

We are excited to roll out our first visual editing features to all AppSheet creators, starting today. This a new way for AppSheet creators to make changes to their apps and navigate the editor. It’s intuitive for anyone to point at what they want to change if they can see it.

Turn on the Edit toggle to use the visual editing tools while previewing the live app.

Position your cursor over a component in the visual editor, you can click

to edit settings for the component.

For more information, see:

• Community post
• Use the visual editing tools.

@lizlynch

As I posted to the other thread, this feature is technically “Preview release” instead of the proper FEATURE (GA), as it is wrapped and linked to the preview feature.

This is a part of “improved editor” as this is not avaiable the existing app editor layout.

So please correct your words to be precise and not to give us the confusions, thanks.

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Announcements/First-visual-editing-in-the-AppSheet-editor/m-p/625074/highlight/true#M7427

[Koichi_Tsuji]

@lizlynch

If I m permitted to say more, recent days the release (as well as annoucement by Google) about new feature is quite vague, and not clear to all the users.

It is said that the “New preview feature is released for testing”, but such as new feature is presented to user once they access to the editor. Why the preview ones are presented by default?

Futhermore, some preview features (a part of list of preview ones) is not controllable by the toggle option inside UX > Options > General > Preview new features.

With/wihtout turning this option on, some preview features are un-affected, as it is not associated with this options.

Total confusion all the time.