July 27, 2023

AppSheet Release Notes
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Deployment Time: 1:30 PM PST

Features & enhancements

None

Bug fixes

Item Description
Bug In the desktop UI (preview), when using detail view edit in place, editing related rows in inline views is now supported without exiting edit mode (making the edit-in-place behavior comparable to form views). This fix will be rolled out gradually. It is deployed to 100% of free users.
Bug Bug fix for Copy This App button in a sample app not working. The app is now copied as expected.

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Bug The List data type is value for virtual columns only. You are now prevented from being able to select List type for a non-virtual column (rather than receiving an error when you save your app). This fix will be rolled out gradually. It is deployed to 100% of free users.

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 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.
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).
Enhancement Additional usability improvements in AppSheet app editor (Preview)

The app editor includes navigation and app setting improvements, currently in preview, to facilitate the configuration of specific features. The navigation improvements now include a secondary navigation panel that lets you quickly scan all of your components. In addition, there are more direct links in your View component to the table, column, or action that you want to check or edit. Finally, error and warning messages are more prominently displayed in the app.



For more information, see:

- Further usability improvements: Simplifying the navigation in the editor
- Summary of 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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Hi Liz,

My apologies if I should have posted this elsewhere.

In the past 24 hours (possibly when these updates were deployed) we’re experiencing a bug where all of our Dashboard views no longer have the ability to scroll in the Desktop/Browser. In one Dashboard, we have 4 interactive views (2 Tables, 1 Detail, 1 Calendar) that users have arranged stacked vertically and would scroll the page. Currently, the views still extend beyond the viewport, but there is no way to scroll to them. I have not made any changes to our app in 4 days.

I have tried;

  • resetting the dashboard and rearranging the views
  • clearing the browser cache
  • restoring a previous version of our app
  • setting the ‘Desktop mode (Preview)’ to off
    and unfortunately the problem remains.

Is there anything you can suggest, or would there a way I can rollback an Appsheet Release to test?

Thank you & sincerely grateful, Ben

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@Ben_Dowell - Apologies for the inconvenience! I’m passing this feedback on to the dev team!

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@Ben_Dowell Hello, this bug should be fixed now, please let me know if you’re still seeing this!

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Amazing, thank you!
All sorted, thanks for the speedy fix :blush: