November 1, 2022

AppSheet Release Notes
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Deployment Time: 1:00 PM PST

Features & enhancements

None

Bug fixes

Item Description
Bug Prompt user to save or discard changes when leaving a table view with unsaved changes
Fixes a bug in the desktop UI (preview) where a user could navigate away from a table view with edits in progress without saving or discarding them.

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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Now AppSheet throw a dialogue box to let the user to save, discard the changes, but can you make this message localizable? We are not able to change this system text for now to other languages.

@takuya_miyai

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@lizlynch You should also add a message if we close the Browser while there are still syncs queue.

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/AppSheet-Q-A/Check-if-sync-queue-is-empty-or-not-When-we/m-p/300041

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@Fabian_Weller

That is also absolutely making sense.

@lizlynch

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@Koichi_Tsuji and @Fabian_Weller - Great feedback! Will pass this on to the AppSheet dev team. Thank you!

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@Koichi_Tsuji Thanks for pointing it out, we are missing the localization mapping for this one. Will look into adding it.

@Fabian_Weller We have just begun rolling out an update to add this behavior. Custom localization unfortunately won’t work for this one because intercepting a request to close the tab is a browser built-in behavior, and modern browsers typically show a standard message that can’t be overridden. However, (perhaps depending on the browser) the standard message will likely be localized automatically to match the language settings of the browser.

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Hi @lizlynch ,

With the new update on 1st-Feb-23 cause a new bug for enum and enumlist for popup. So that user can not select value on enum or enumlist in popup with input() function.

Please fix this bu asap.

Thanks,

Hien

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ENUMLIST Input pop up shows but when I want to add a new record by pressing add it opens up form in background and not able to edit it.

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@hien_nguyen @Rifad

Thank you. Escalating to the AppSheet dev team.

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