December 2, 2022

AppSheet Release Notes
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Deployment Time: 2:15 PM PST

Features & enhancements

Item Description
Enhancement AppSheet feature samples

The AppSheet feature samples, which were discoverable using the old support interface, are now listed in the documentation. See Get started with AppSheet by using the feature samples.
Note: Descriptions of the feature samples will also be added soon.
Enhancement For desktop UI (preview), adds a detailed synchronization information UI that provides the ability to discard changes, view errors, and support fully localized strings. For example:

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Bug fixes

Item Description
Bug For desktop UI (preview), fixed a bug where clicking an edit button would sometimes open the wrong edit view.
Bug For desktop UI (preview), fixed an issue where auto-reopen for forms did not work.
Bug For desktop UI (preview), fixed an issue where forms do not auto-populate values when adding rows from collection views with filters.
Bug For desktop UI (preview), fixed an issue where the drill-down tree was not filtered when navigating from the View button in an inline view.
Bug Fixed a bug that prevented specifying a name for document tables when adding them to an app.
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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:

- Community announcement
- AppSheet databases
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).
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.
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auto-reopen forms are still not working for me :pensive_face:

Description (in desktop view):

  1. open form (with auto-reopen settings turned on, with option to edit directly from details disabled)
  2. fill out info and save
  3. form becomes stuck, unable to close form (with x button) or save or cancel
  4. once the new row is automatically added (synced) it starts working again and the form is ready to be filled again
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Hi, I’m looking into this at the moment but I’m not seeing the issue the way that you have described, can you open a support ticket and allow us access to take a look at your app in context?

Thanks!

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Great !!!

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@PatW of course! should I refer to you?

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yes please!

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I tried but I was first in queue for chat for half an hour, sorry!

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Sorry about that! If you can enable support access anyways and PM me the app name I can take a look.

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Oh thank you so much!!

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@PatW sorry, how can I PM you?

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sorry! thought we were still on intercom. you can email me at pawong@google.com

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Looks like you have a Form Saved event action that’s conflicting with the form reopen option. I’ve opened a ticket on our side to figure out what we want to do when the creator has defined a navigation action AND form re-open, but if you change the behavior to AUTO things should work okay :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thank you so much for your help.

Your suggestion is correct, but please note that, in my case, your fix
works for desktop only and stops auto re-open on mobile.

But I found the fix so both mobile and desktop work: I had to set the
“finish view” of the form ALSO to “Automatic”.

So, to recap if anyone is having the same issue, for form auto re-open to
work both on “mobile” (standard view) and in desktop, configuration is:

  • Event actions → form saved → set to Auto
  • Re-open → switched ON
  • Finish View → set to Automatic