Recently, the changes could have been made and introduced by AppSheet to construct the URL to reach out to the sample app you made.
[September 14, 2021](https://community.appsheet.com/t/september-14-2021/54921) Feature Release Notes
Deployment Time: 9:41 PM PST Features & enhancements None. Bug fixes Item Description Bug Formatting rules should now update more frequently when the data is updated. Deployed to 30% of free users. Bug Fixed issue with backdrop card view onClick event that was only getting triggered if the photo was clicked. Now the entire card triggers the onClick event. To implement this change on existing apps, you will need to change to a di…
Bug Bug fix for rebranding Sample Apps to Templates. The route samples/?appGuid was not working properly for users inside the rollout. Now samples?appGuid as templates?appGuid is supported.
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Still it was not clear even after we reviewing the recent announcement by the team.
I check and tested to learn how to manually construct URL for sample app, and found a working formula. Still not sure if it is well founded, so appreciate for AppSheet team interation to this topics.
Firstly, this is one of the recently working sample app url. This is taken from one of AppSheet sample (recently renamed to Template)
> "https://www.appsheet.com/samples/Share-app-templates-with-teammates?appGuidString=ffe6d5ff-17ba-4ab6-ab1c-04e1f105fcf3"
Then this could be formulated to :
https://www.appsheet.com/templates/ANYTEXT?appGuidString=APP_ID
Just replace APP_ID with your own app unique App_ID
For the part of ANYTEXT, you can change it over to any arbitrary text, but you can not omit this part.
@Aleksi
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Awesome, thank you @tsuji_koichi for this tip !
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As I explainin, you can not omit AnyText part of URL formula.
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tsuji_koichi:
As I explainin, you can not omit AnyText part of URL formula.
Right, but AppSheet is saying that this has been fixed, right?
By the way, I wrote a “Tips” article that is very similar to this one a couple weeks ago:
[Publish a sample app without putting it on your portfolio page](https://community.appsheet.com/t/publish-a-sample-app-without-putting-it-on-your-portfolio-page/54249) Tips & Tricks ?
I would like to avoid clutter on my portfolio page. Currently, I have just one app on it – one that I have been developing over a long period of time and that I am using in a university class of mine: https://www.appsheet.com/portfolio/230844 I do, however, like to share little apps I’ve made with other AppSheet creators. To do this, I need to be able to provide a URL directly to the sample app. Recently, a method for doing this that worked began producing the following error: [Screen Sho…
Our URL construction methods are basically the same but I didn’t describe the ANYTEXT part as clearly as you did, though I too noticed that. Actually, I’m not comfortable with having to have text in the ANYTEXT spot, when it isn’t really necessary. I’m worried that this won’t be stable and that, at some point, URLs will stop working. Also, if the ANYTEXT can be anything, why not have a simplier format (fewer letters) as the default. In that sense, I think that
https://www.appsheet.com/templates?appGuidString=APP_ID
or
https://www.appsheet.com/templates/appGuidString=APP_ID
should be the default but neither seems to work yet (at least for me).
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I do not any idea where AppSheet stands on this, as they never gave us any detailed explanation and clarification unfortunately.
Our URL placed here and there did started NOT to work all the sudden, so we worked whole day to change them over to the ones in line with format I introduced.
I m just factual, for the moment, we are not able to omit ANYTEXT part of strings, that s about it.
Not sure if this is bug or not, as the AppSheet never clarify that.
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tsuji_koichi:
I m just factual, for the moment, we are not able to omit ANYTEXT part of strings, that s about it.> Not sure if this is bug or not, as the AppSheet never clarify that.
Right. I also find that we cannot omit ANYTEXT. I too hope that AppSheet will clarify this.
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tsuji_koichi:
Still it was not clear even after we reviewing the recent announcement by the team.
I also added this statement as well.
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The fix is in — no need to have ANYTEXT for /templates route to work. Apologies for the confusion and issues this bug created!
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I understood this was caused by a bug, and now fixed.
Is my understanding correct, reagardless of with/without ANYTEXT strings would work equally? I mean we can omit ANYTEXT, but we are also able to pass ANYTEXT value to construct URL?
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Thank you. So understand this behavior will stay alive, i.e. the ANYTEXT part is just optional and we are able to pass ANY arbitrary string to it, but it acts in the same way. I will bear in mind, thank you.
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Hi @macastan !
Building on this excellent tip thread started by @tsuji_koichi and the information you have provided here, I’ve prepared another tip that I hope is a comprehensive and up-to-date account the topic:
[How to share your app as a template / sample app via your portfolio and/or a URL](https://community.appsheet.com/t/how-to-share-your-app-as-a-template-sample-app-via-your-portfolio-and-or-a-url/58326) Tips & Tricks ?
In this post, I’m revisiting topics that have been covered several times in “Tips” and other posts in this community. None of the information in this tip is new but I thought I’d glean the best information from the various posts that have been made so far and put it in one “tip” for easy reference. I’ve appended a set of links to previous posts that I have referred to in putting this together for those who might be interested. There are two ways in which one can share a sample app (now referr…
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