I am such a beginner to AppSheet and to coding that I do not even know the terminology that I should be using to discuss what I am trying to do. That means that I don’t know if this query has already been addressed in a questions elsewhere on the forums because I don’t know what terms to search for.
I work for a very small business and have recently created an extremely basic app using AppSheet for our two employees to use to access data about our clients. What I am trying to do (or just find out whether it is possible) is to generate a link (a string of characters) that would serve as a hyperlink or command, so that when my employees, on mobile, clicked on that link outside of AppSheet it would open AppSheet and take them to a particular screen.
I know this is theoretically possible because other apps do it all the time. For example, my friend can text me a Spotify link in Messenger that is just a string of characters/URL/hyperlink. When I click on it in Messenger, my device moves away from the Messenger App and launches the Spotify App, and then does something in Spotify (navigates to and plays the song my friend sent me).
Can I do this in AppSheet? To be specific, what I want to do is generate a link that takes my employee to a system-generated Detail view about a particular client (one row in my main table). I will take that link and put it in a Google Calendar event details pane (for the calendar event of my employee visiting that client). Then, when they click the link, it will open AppSheet and take them to the info page for that client.
Thank you for your response but I do not understand. Your screenshot does not look like what I see when I am editing Apps in App Sheet.
In addition, you appear to be telling me to just copy the link/URL from the URL bar and use that. That leads to the Editing App window in AppSheet, in a browser. If I send that link to a mobile device, and then click it, it opens the browser on the mobile device, tries to sign in to App Sheet via a Google Account, and then opens the Edit App window. That’s not what I am trying to do at all. I am trying to cue the mobile device to open the AppSheet app, and load a particular screen in a particular app. Is this possible?
Indeed if you copy/paste the link of the editor, it won’t open the app if opened on mobile. But it will if you copy/paste the link of the desktop version. To access it , just click here in the editor :
That won’t be sufficient to link to a specific row, though. For that, you’ll need to construct a “deep link”. See also: App column type (deep link)
If your app sends out emails and you want to include clickable links back to the app, you can use template variables to include the link. See also: Use variables in templates
