Suggestions- Change Management/Release Notes

Rifad · 07-23-2023 04:58 AM

I have got few apps that are large with many tables/modules. It would be really nice to know if anyone practice something similar to release notes for your own appsheet apps.

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Release-Notes/bg-p/appsheet-releasenotes

Its really difficult sometimes to make changes and circle back to a change after couple of months if the user/client want more changes. Also this can help keeping users updated about latest changes in system.

Thank you!

Joseph_Seddik

I do a combined user manual and relese notes. I put it in an online single Google Doc. It is primarily a detailed user manual. The first section is a "Change Log", where I put changes in reverse chronological order with version numbers, also adding a link to the changed section in the document.

MultiTech

Nice @Joseph_Seddik you really take documentation seriously! (You contracting that out as a service!) 🤣🤣🤣

I've got a set of auto-tables that I use to manage getting the updates to the users:

Welcome: which serves as a landing page
Notifications: which serves as a "release notes" type of system inside the app

The combination of these two together creates a nice little space in your app where users can stay updated on the latest news.

You can check out what that looks like in the Answer Portal on the Home base; there's a Notifications section that contains the various releases and updates for that app over time.

I find it's nice to have the details of the updates right there inside the app, since people are using it anyways.

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There is a lot of different ways in which you could go about this, and I'm curious to hear what others are doing.

Joseph_Seddik

@MultiTech That's verrrrrrry very nice Matt !! 👏👏
I've been thinking about integrating guides inside the apps and you've given me a push to start, thank you! 🌷

@MultiTech wrote:

Nice @Joseph_Seddik you really take documentation seriously! (You contracting that out as a service!) 🤣🤣🤣

I do, very very seriously actually; I've been doing technical documentations for over 20 years now! and I do 😁

Here is an example if it could help anyone:

MultiTech

wow

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That looks like it could be output from an app??? 🤔

Joseph_Seddik

@MultiTech wrote:

That looks like it could be output from an app??? 🤔

Nice idea 🙂 It is certainly possible, though would be time consuming I guess. Unless someones pays for it 😀

Karimmc2

Hi @MultiTech, great app. I got a better question, how did you manage to substitute the appsheet URL with your own? I have been looking for tutorials/ documentation for this for years now and so far nothing. Would you mind sharing the documentation link? it could be a good idea for a video btw 😉

MultiTech

There is a company that's just about to launch that's trying to solve this issue.

teamapps.io

No affiliate or sponsorship or anything, just passing on what I've found online

Rifad

@MultiTech wrote:

teamapps.io

Been using it for a while and looks promising. This is more of technical documentation for developer and its great. I was looking for more info for user/customer side documentations and release notes something similar to this.

DamienH

Hi Rifad,

We just launched a user guides feature! I was meaning to email you. If you login to app.teamapps.io it will direct you to start a trial and give you 200k tokens. Then navigate to user guides...Lots more capability coming to it soon as well. Follow up prompts, custom prompts. Etc.

Rifad

Great work ! @DamienH

Rifad

@MultiTech wrote:

You can check out what that looks like in the Answer Portal on the Home base; there's a Notifications section that contains the various releases and updates for that app over time.

This is sooo good @MultiTech

MultiTech

Thanks @Rifad 🙏

The items inside that notifications list even filter themselves based on the current user. 💪

DamienH

Nice @MultiTech just watched your video looks great. It'd be cool if it was a chat App where you could reference the App somehow in the chat? Switch between bot and human in chat.