Welcome to our monthly Community Roundup series! Check out our latest news and upcoming events, along with new Community feature updates.
We love to see how many of you are eager to participate in Community discussions. Let’s take a quick look at who contributed the most by replies authored and topics published in the month of August. Meet our top five contributors:
Thank you to @Steve for continuing to be a top contributor of solutions within the AppSheet Community and @Suvrutt_Gurjar & @SkrOYC who remain in the top three for sharing love (likes) this month!
Are you ready to become our next top contributor? Learn all about how to contribute to the Community here.
Here are our most popular discussions in the AppSheet Community over the past month:
Looking for more topics and discussions? Visit the AppSheet Q&A or Tips & Tricks forums to join the conversation or start something new.
The Community team continues to work hard to improve the Community based on your valuable feedback. Below is an overview of the recent updates to our Community features. Let us know what you think of these updates with a comment below! We’d love to hear from you.
Improving the functionality of our community platform remains a priority for the Community Team including site performance, enhancing features, and bug fixes.
Members can now Highlight to quote in threads, subscribe to labels and we have increased the limits on sending personal messages between members.
Beyond participating in the public Q&A forums, we know how important it is for members to connect with each other through direct, personal messages within the community. Based on your feedback, members may now send two private messages per 30 seconds, ten private messages per 10 mins and 30 private messages per 60 mins.
Please continue to share feedback on your experience in the AppSheet Community!
Stay up-to-date with the latest AppSheet announcements, including platform updates, new features, and Community news.
As we continue to develop and expand the AppSheet Community offerings, your feedback is essential. We invite Community Members to engage through activities such as:
Do you have ideas of ways the community can serve our members better? We’re all ears!
The AppSheet Community recently came together for the first ever App Jam - a live, guided session taking you step-by-step through building an app in the AppSheet platform. Thanks to everyone who was able to join us!
In this post, we share the recording/live demonstration and the steps listed out for you to follow along. By following these steps, you will:
On August 4th, we held AppSheet Office Hours focused on app lifecycle management. In case you missed it, check out the recording to hear best practices and recommendations for managing your apps from idea to impact, including:
Recap Post Coming Soon!
This past month, @Arthur_Rallu shared that we’re now previewing AppSheet’s new visual design for applications that are accessed on desktop browsers. Check out the announcement post for all the details and to provide your feedback!
As many of you are closing out the Summer, and preparing to either welcome or tolerate cooler weather, we’re also gearing up for a busy season of back to back holidays, Flu Season and much needed family holidays!
The PTO Tracker allows teams to capture when team members will be out of office. It allows employees to login and share when they will be out. The outages are displayed in both a calendar view and a table view. This simple tracker enables teams to have visibility of employee outages, differentiating between planned vacations and sick days to ensure teams can plan for coverage.
Copy & customize the app template here!
One of the most popular aspects of the AppSheet Community are all the tips and tricks members share with each other. Thank you for continuing to share your knowledge, aha moments, and recommendations as they go a long way in helping your fellow app creators unlock the power of AppSheet.
This month, we wanted to highlight this tip from @MultiTech on how to personalize the experience for those using your apps. Though this thread was initially shared in December of 2020, it continues to be a regularly accessed resource with more than 6,000 views and counting!
In this thread, @MultiTech takes members step-by-step through requirements, setup and even use cases! Check it out and don't forget to share your appreciation by liking the post, adding a comment and subscribing to the thread so you won’t miss updates. 😀
Here’s an overview of AppSheet product updates and enhancements over the past month. To stay up-to-date with the latest, make sure you subscribe to Release Notes.
For the complete and most up-to-date details on product updates, see the Release Notes forum here.
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Roderick Griner (he/him) recently joined the Google Cloud Community Team as one of our Community Managers. While new to our team, he’s no stranger to user communities. He will be working closely with the AppSheet Community to enhance the experience and programming for our members. He believes that healthy customer communities should be member-led and looks forward to listening and learning from all of you!
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Thanks everyone. Until next time!
The Google Cloud Community Team
Love it! Thanks @Roderick
I feel like it's inappropriate to keep including me in the top posters since I am paid to participate. Can you omit me in the future?
I disagree.
I think everyone on the community love reading your posts and answers 😄
In my opinion you deserve being mentionned, maybe separately, but definitely being mentionned as top contributor 😁
Noted, thanks Steve!
@Steve you are absolute gem!...😁😂🤣
@Roderick welcome.....it great to see capacity is growing in the investment of Appsheet and this Community.
All the best!
I sure you are going to be "hitting the ground running" ....I might be a "SMALL" cause of this....sorry!😁😏
Appsheet has always been a platform that "listens" vs just "hearing" and will continue to grow .....of which the community is the best place to learn and gro.
Not at all! I'm am TOTALLY here for the feedback! We're definitely working behind the scenes (stay tuned 🤐) to make this Community not just a place where you all can find valuable AppSheet support and rally around each other, but we want the overall experience to be clean & accessible.
Keep the feedback coming!
Welcome @Roderick to the community.
Some of us can be a little harsh sometimes but we push the platform for the better.
Hope you get experience with AppSheet and not just community management since we need community managers to understand our needs
Again, welcome to this place, hope you find this to be a warm place
Thanks so much for the welcome @SkrOYC! Candid feedback is welcomed and appreciated -- even when it's a little harsh! 😉
Welcome, @Roderick! Looking forward to continued effectiveness and continuous improvement in this community that app creators depend on.
Thanks so much, @dbaum!
@Roderick wrote:Check out the recap post that includes Q&A
This link to a recap of the Lifecycle Management session goes to a post about the App Jam session: "AppSheet App Jam: Step-by-step getting started guide for new users".
Good catch! I removed the link and we'll share the recap once it's finished.
Hi @Roderick ,
Welcome to the community and best wishes. Thank you for publishing the latest newsletter. It helps in getting to know happenings in the AppSheet world.
May I also request you to unpin the July newsletter and pin the latest August newsletter? I believe the pinned posts appear at the top of the section posts? Currently the July newsletter is appearing above the August newsletter.
Thanks for catching this @Suvrutt_Gurjar! Updated.
Hello @Roderick welcome to the community!
Thanks
Hey! @Roderick any chance someone from google might notice there is this section of the community called "Feature Ideas"? Not to be harsh but I think many of us have spent hours pouring information into that section and then to have it just completely ignored for years is quite disheartening. It would be awesome to see some activity from the google side of things in that section.
If google has no plans of using that section of the community can someone just delete it and stop giving us false hope.
Hmm maybe I just came up with my next Feature Idea....