Introducing the new and improved AppSheet Help Center

@lizlynch

Oh…

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There seem to be many http links left on the web.

@takuya_miyai - Thank you for reporting these issues! We will definitely look into this. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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No, I am sorry. We aren’t able to maintain the old site.

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@lizlynch Would you please change the new site’s favicon to be more specific? I’m using minimalized bookmarks and this Google Search favicon is not helping. Thank you!

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Thanks for this feedback! Will share this with the team to see if it’s possible to change it.

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@takuya_miyai - I am happy to report the issue with HTTP links has been fixed!
Please let us know if you still notice any issues.

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Yes please. I’m aware that technically this is a simple change, but now AppSheet’s help is part of Google’s Help platform and unfortunately the latter doesn’t have a dedicated logo as one of Google’s products. But it is a separate product, and a very good one, so it deserves its own logo :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thanks @lizlynch ,

I can confirm that it has improved! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Just got the chance to delve more into the new site and I’d like to say it’s really really good. Information are much more organized and accessible, you feel correlation and consistency, and most importantly it makes learning AppSheet much more easier. Good Work!

The only comment I have is about the font size which I believe is too small with tight line spacing. I think a better template should be used for the articles. The old site had it much better. That’s all.

And by the way, thanks for the Dark Mode!! I hope we see it in in this community!

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:smiley: :tada:

Super happy to hear!! Thank you for the feedback!
Let me look into the font size… and if Dark Mode is on the roadmap for the Community!

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:smiling_face_with_sunglasses: That’s great news!! Thanks for reporting back!

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@lizlynch Just discovered another AWESOME feature! You can now send feedback on individual paragraphs in the article. The display of the cursor highlighting each paragraph as you move also looks very nice. Well done!

I’ve sent correction requests for a couple of paragraphs in this article: DECIMAL() - AppSheet Help. Would you please check if they were duly received? Thanks.

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Will look for your feedback! Appreciate it!

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@Joseph_Seddik - I was informed that Dark Mode IS on the Community roadmap, but not sure how soon it will be implemented. There is a Dark Mode Chrome extension that you might consider in the meantime (if you are using Chrome)?

As per font resizing, I confirmed that it’s a fixed size across the support sites for consistency; we cannot customize it. You can adjust sizing using their browser or phone settings (as I’m sure you already know).

Hope this helps!

Liz

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Old help article link:

https://help.appsheet.com/en/articles/961426-references-between-tables

New help article link for same article:

https://support.google.com/appsheet/answer/10106510

With the old link, the title of the article is in the URL, you can tell exactly which article it is just by reading the URL. Not with the new links. “New”, yes, definitely not “improved”.

The help site itself looks great though.

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@lizlynch I’m on Safari, but being on the roadmap is already good news! Please keep updated. OK for the font size, no problem.

Regarding the feedback on the help site’s articles, just to clarify, I need you please just to check if the two comments I made are received, just to test the new site and see whether feedback is reaching you correctly. Thank you.

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I like the old style URLs, too, for that reason. This is an unfortunate loss. Ironic, too, since I believe Google itself recommends putting keywords in the URL for SEO.

As an alternative, in the composer after entering a URL into your post, click the link to open the pop-up menu and select Auto title:

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(Attn @cloud_spanner , note the broken icons in the screenshot above)

The composer will pull the document’s title in as the clickable text:

References between tables - AppSheet Help

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I’m looking into this now! I am sure the information is being collected, I just need to get on the right distribution list. Will respond back when I can access it. If it’s something urgent that needs to be changed, let me know! (Thanks for testing this process!)

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There are discrepancies between the return values in the article and the actual return value returned by the command. The information is wrong, but I wouldn’t say correction is urgent; because an app creator would spot the error quickly.

It is more about testing the process please. This is what I’d rather qualify as urgent. Thank you!

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If you seach with “Workflow” with new platform, tons of old articles are down there still. I m not impressed.

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