Hey community!
We want to give a world-class experience to the people using our apps. So weโre refreshing our app design, giving each component in the app some attention. Expect to things to be more minimal and consistent, so that the content takes the foreground.
This week weโre releasing a new side menu. It supports a larger list of menu options, and divides the menu up so that itโs easier to find stuff. Weโre putting some basic app information in there as well.
Hereโs a preview of what itโll look like:
Thanks everyone!
Morgan
Looks smooth!
Yes, new UX indeed looks sleeker and minimal.
I canโt wait and see . Is there option available to create collapsible menu so that end user can drill down to deeper to see target view?
I assume it is related to this works to implement new UI.
On the table view for desk top, the side scroll bar is missing. We are not able to scroll up and down now!! Please have a look.
I too love the new menu look!!.
But I wonder if there is too much top/bottom padding reducing the number of Menu items that can be shown without scrolling?
Yes, I agree. This menu is a step in the right direction, but now I have to scroll more to see my menu options. Padding should definitely be reduced, and then all would be fine. Good Job!
Thanks for the feedback! I reduced the padding and itโll be updated for everyone the next time we deploy.
Thanks for the quick response!
Have a Wonderful Day! - Nick Barry RPC
Hi,
Sorry to say that the new menu still wastes too much space and makes it less friendly to view. It sort of hides the menu items and force the user to scroll for no reason. (Logout is not that important to show it all the time)
I preffer the previous menu.
Butโฆ when sub menus will be available this might become a minor issue as the list of menu items would be much shorter and less likely to be hidden by the Logout
Thank you
Appsheet is great!
I want to have collapsible menu !
I would love a collapsible menu! This would make it less confusing for my users who currently have to worm their way through multiple menus. Maybe at the bottom of a view in UX - Views, you could have an option like โMenu or Sub-Menu?โ and then if you click โSub-Menuโ, it asks which Menu to attach it to.
Definitely.
Do you mean a collapsable Tree view?
Something like this.
FYI, its known as an โAccordionโ control in application development tools.
Is this menu available?
Cheers
If you are referring to the side menu for which this thread was originally create, then yes that menu is the menu we currently see in our apps.
The โAccordionโ style menu was a suggestion (and I think a good next step) but is not available in the app presently.
Heey!
You know how to change the options to add more options besides "About", "Assistant"?
Each view you create in the app has a property named "Position" to determine where within the app that view is displayed...or if at all. One of those options is "Menu" and will place the view in the side Menu section. It will also be organized in the view list under the "Menu Views" section.
NOTE: There is also, in the views list, a "Rearrange Menu" function to allow reordering of the views you insert.
Thanks, that's great! ๐
I wish we had a view like that for table view! Not just side menu
Great! I hope the day will come when the back button does not make the side menu disappear.
Very exciting - hope that you do not force the display of these three in the menu on whitelabel apps
You wont see them once the app white labeled.
Is it possible to turn back to the old menu? The new one is not a step forward.
The new one introduces a lot of fill-space between the menu items, which makes the menu twice as long.
At the same time, the icons have moved far away from the edge, so that the space for the menu itemโs name is reduced or split into two lines (which makes the menu even longer).
Perhaps this is because too much margin has been added to both the left-right side and the top of the menu.
The move of the app name into the menu is not ideal, as it wastes a lot of space. Please make it optional.
+1 on the hamburger menu sub-menu functionalityโฆ
@morgan hereโs a great example of what it could work / look like
This is a cropped version of my android zoho invoice app and iโm the hamburger menu already when the video starts.
This is what i really want to have on Appsheet.
Did you do this in Appsheets?
No, thatโs just a screen shot of a different application.
ok. Thanks
Really want this update.
Hi @morgan I notice in the emulator the there is a gap between the icons and the text but on my android phone the icons are still running over the text. Do I need to do anything to avoid this?
Iโve 2 things for menu.
1.Swipe-gesture to show/pull the menu, now we need to tap on menu icon.
2.Custom line separator for grouping menu items of the same kind.
ยกAweasome!
Iโve been waiting for this kind of update, thanks!
How can I add a custom separator between the menu options and make a submenu out of various Items?
You cannot add separators or submenus at this time.
I encourage you to check the Features list for a request that might have already been submitted and Vote it up. If you donโt find one, then add it.
Looks good.
Submenus can be build using slices
is there a feature request for accordion functionality, in particular I want accordion functionality in a details view, mine is getting to be long and I need a way to collapse it without having the user jump through links to see the sub-items.