The top priority of office hours is to hear your questions about these new features, and anything else you’re working on in AppSheet - please share your questions below and we’ll try to address as many as possible during the hour!
We have hundreds of users for our Appsheet apps who are based in Africa and many of them report issues with logging into the apps. It seems that the connection is timing out. One user tried opening the same app on the same phone and was not able to do so in Africa while there were no issues in Europe. Would it be possible for you to get some servers apart from the US and closer to Africa? (if you’re using Azure cloud, we checked they have servers in South Africa and middle East)
Within a form, I want a user to enter multiples values for one field can it be done?
Example:
User needs to enter a list of items(one or more) belonging to a category.
(I don’t know the items for categories, so I can not do dropdown and enable add new.)
Thanks for this feedback and sharing your situation - we’re forwarding on to the team for ideas, but in the meantime, can you share a bit more about what types of devices and data the app users in Africa are trying to access? There may be other ways to resolve as well - if any information is sensitive, please send to support@appsheet.com
Hope you enjoyed the webinar session today! We currently are developing this level of analytics for our Business Subscription at the moment and understand that it would be really helpful to app creators. We’ll be sure to forward this along to product and keep you updated if we do provide it for the Pro plan as well. Thank you for the feedback.
You can set up “Add a Row to a Table” actions to separate out these selected options and add them as separate rows in a table. Although, the limitation would be that the number of actions you set up would have to match up with the number of items users selected.
Is there a way I can count on-the-fly the number of options selected by the user and then use it to run “Add a Row to a Table” action?
Let’s say, the user always selects a fixed number of options. Is there a sample app that I can look under the hoop on how to set up “Add a Row to a Table” action for that many number of times, that adds a new row in the table for each option selected?
You can count the number of options selected on the fly, but you’d need to have these actions already made. We’re currently in the process of creating a sample app with the “Add a Row to a Table” feature. In the meantime, please follow the steps in this Community post to implement the action:
[Action: Add a Row to a Table](https://community.appsheet.com/t/action-add-a-row-to-a-table/13739) Tips & Tricks ?
Actions are manual ways of interacting with your data, allowing app users to visit a URL, start a phone call, see a location on a map. Actions also allow for quick data changes, or creating a new row of data in the data table for which the Action is associated. Until Praveen’s recent feature announcement, it was not possible to use an Action to add a row of data to a different table. Now, by creating a new Action and specifying which separate table data should be added to, and defining each col…
Although, you can implement your ask by creating multiple “Add a Row to a Table” actions and adding a “Grouped: execute a sequence of actions” action to execute all of your actions.
@rshah You can find some sample Apps in this Post:
[New Action: Add a Row to a table](https://community.appsheet.com/t/new-action-add-a-row-to-a-table/13232) Announcements
We just added an initial version of a new action ‘Data: add a new row to another table using values from this row’ Please try it and give us feedback. Documentation, etc coming later this week. The brief version is here: let’s consider an example with Orders and OrderDetails as two related tables in an app. Add an action ‘CreateChildRow’ to the Orders table that will add a row to the OrderDetails table. You can specify expressions to assign to each column of this row. For example: Order = [O…