January 19. 2022

Deployment Time: 11:50 AM PST

Features & enhancements

None.

Bug fixes

None.

Rollout changes

Item Description
Bug Fixed a bug causing detail views in dashboards to sometimes display an error.

New: Deployed to all users.
Previous: Deployed to 100% of free users and 75% of premium users.

Bug Added an automatic retry on network error to reduce user-facing sync failures caused by transient network issues.

New: Deployed to all users.
Previous: Deployed to 100% of free users and 75% of premium users.

Bug Fixed a bug where localization expression that returns a list could cause an error.

New: Deployed to all users.
Previous: Deployed to 100% of free users and 75% of premium users.

Bug Fixed a bug causing the drop-down input modal to be incorrectly sized after an iOS device orientation change.

New: Deployed to 100% of free users and 50% of premium users.
Previous: Deployed to 100% of free users and 25% of premium users.

Bug If the local cache of table data is missing or invalid on startup, the app would normally sync new data from the server automatically. But under certain circumstances the app would simply start up with no data and display all blank views, as if all tables were empty.

New: Deployed to 75% of all users.
Previous: Deployed to 50% of all users.

Bug Background images were previously resized to 1000px by default, even on much wider screens where this looked noticeably bad. This update makes the background resizing adjust to the viewport, enabling large background images to maintain high resolution on wide screens.

New: Deployed to 75% of all users.
Previous: Deployed to 50% of all users.

Bug Fix for Czech date input format flagged as invalid in Safari.

New: Deployed to 100% of free users and 75% of premium users.
Previous: Deployed to 100% of free users and 50% of premium users.

Bug Fixed a bug where ORDERBY could break when the list to sort was based on a LOOKUP.

New: Deployed to all users.
Previous: Deployed to 100% of free users and 50% of premium users.

Preview announcements

The AppSheet Preview program lets app creators try out new app features that are not yet fully supported. Learn how to participate in the AppSheet preview program for app client features.

  • No new preview features were released today.

What’s currently available in the Preview program?

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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Liz_Lynch:

Added an automatic retry on network error to reduce user-facing sync failures caused by transient network issues.

Cool! Might this be a fix for this issue?

[Blank Screen White Screen after sync IOS iPhone](https://community.appsheet.com/t/blank-screen-white-screen-after-sync-ios-iphone/23983) Questions

We have a fleet of field technicians using AppSheet for their field reporting. After logging in, as usual from any of the various login authentication choices of Salesforce, Google, or Microsoft. Once logged in, the app syncs, and turns to a blank or white page. Some, and not all of our technicians are reporting this issue, and we have +180 users on the app in question. Attached is a video to illustrate. A fix has been the following: Uninstall AppSheet Reboot phone Reinstall AppSheet We are…

When I experience this white screen deadend, I often wish there were so way to make the phone retry a sync.