My app is more-or-less finished. I expect to continue to tweak it but I am no longer actively editing. However, as the capabilities of the AppSheet platform expand, Iโd like to consider incorporating new features.
My problem is that Iโm having trouble figuring out whatโs new. The โWhatโs Newโ section of this forum is more like an โOccasional Posts from AppSheetโ section and is by no means comprehensive.
For the most part, it seems that users are just expected to discover changes in display styles (and perhaps some other changes in the platform) as they come on board. I recently inquired about a change in style and got a very nice reply from @praveen:
But as far as I can tell thereโs no systematic way in which changes are communicated to creators.
The AppSheet platform is our toolbox for app creation. When a tool function is changed (as with recent display changes) or a new tool is added, we need to know. I think that major additions, particularly additions that AppSheet wants feedback on, get announced. Even with such changes, however, I donโt think a neatly organized chronological list is available.
Iโm hoping Iโm wrong and that the kind of information Iโm hoping for is available but Iโve just missed it. Please let me know.
Iโm looking forward to hearing from any of you who share my interest in this topic.
Hereโs an example of the kind of information Iโm interested in:
This is good but it would be nice but currently this kind of information is mixed in with other blog posts. Iโm hoping for a single URL I can go to in order to find all of the changes that have occurred since I last checked.
Oh! I found it:
https://community.appsheet.com/c/feature-release-notes/25
But, in my defense, itโs hard to find. As far as I can see, none of the categories at the top of the page link to it:
It seems to me that โWhatโs Newโ (at the top of the community screen) should be made into a dropdown menu with links to both โAnnouncementsโ and โFeature Release Notesโ. Ironically, โWhatโs Newโ only links to one category of posts, whereas the other headings have drop-down menus that link to more than one.
If โFeature Release Notesโ had been in โWhatโs New,โ I wouldnโt have needed to write this excessively long post.
Thereโs also the new Feature Release Notes category, but it also seems to be occasional and incomplete. Iโd prefer a detailed, chronological change log- in a single page (not multiple threads), but I think AppSheetโs approach on this is different because itโs a no-code platform.
Iโm also not a fan of the support document format. Again, I think this comes down to AppSheet targeting non-developers, so those of us that are used to traditional documentation and change logs feel like the platform is missing something.
But this is a no-code platform with lots of users who have no coding experience, so I guess they donโt feel there is enough of a demand for this level of detail to be available to the community. I donโt agree with that, but I do think this is why there isnโt more attention given to those resources.
Iโm glad you and I have similar views about this. Personally, I donโt think that the no code vs. code issue should impact on whether or not platform changes are noted in an easy to follow format. Perhaps the no code orientation might lead to a more discursive style โ as opposed to a straight list โ but, nonetheless, I think we need to be able to find out what has changed since a given date. Having said that, I would be happy to see a long, searchable text file if that were to be made available.
For now, Iโll be satisfied with making โFeature Release Notesโ easier to find.
Thanks for making AppSheet a company that listens, @praveen ! This kind of response is one of many great aspects of AppSheet!
I also see that โFeature Release Notesโ can now be accessed from โWhatโs new,โ just as I had requested in this thread.
I think that Iโm only one of many people who had asked for these kinds of improvements but, nonetheless, I feel heard and am grateful.
Thank you for your patience @Kirk_Masden
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