Tasks, Events, Processes are modular and can be reused across multiple bots
Intent-Aware authoring
Intelligent Document Processing
Connectors / Events
AppSheet Events Add-On
Is this an app built on appsheet? We use RPA automations and want to combine monitoring those bots and our appsheet app metrics into 1 place so I want to look under the hood of that app to see how you guys structured it.
@Austin_Lambeth check out this resource for more info http://help.appsheet.com/en/articles/4865411-automation-monitoring
OH I CANT WAIT FOR THIS!!! thank you guys so much for your hard work and passion. You are giving the little guys the tools to bring their passion and vision to the world!
This is a really interesting use caseโฆthe monitoring feature of AppSheet are really only intended to monitor AppSheet processes. It would be interesting to see if it would make sense to create an App that does some monitoring of RPA (or other processes)โฆ
Which RPA provider are you using (UIPath, Automation Anywhere, etcโฆ)?
Do they have APIs available that you could invoke as a webhook to check the status of robots or do they have the ability to write the status of bots out to a DB or Sheet?
Any other information you have about this use case would be interesting to hear about.
Thanks,
Scott
We use UiPath.
This would be more of a monitoring outputs written to our own database on the status of bot processes. I do believe UiPath has API functionality but I am not versed enough in it to use that so I just code a logging functionality into my bots that rights to the database we use for Appsheet. We also use Alteryx with Alteryx Scheduler so as you can see we have many different places that we need to monitor processes from and we want a singular hub to monitor everything. We currently barely monitor them well enough on their own.
No one in our organization is particularly knowledgeable on database design, we know the basics and get by just fine, but I want to pick Appsheetโs brain(app) about how to best make logging records and then recreate your app to our needs. Just researching it reading post and articles online is much more boring than reading an app.
It is indeed an AppSheet app. The monitoring data is sources from native table(s) in your app.
I donโt think I understand the flow. So is it building the W9, or is it just reading the W9 and entering it into the google sheet?
Its reading the W9 and extracting it into a table automatically. If you have a view against that table, you will be able to see the extracted data in that view.
What OCR process are you guys using for this? Cause we literally have an appsheet app already developed that used AWS Textract to read invoices, pull out pieces of information and put it into a MySQL database that we correct and approve and make changes to through appsheet. I assume yโall will be leveraging some Google version of Textract?
We leverage Google Cloud Document AI to power this feature.
Hi @Austin_Lambeth, that sounds amazingโฆI have built an app around invoice management and thatโs what Iโm missing!!
If this new development from Appsheet doesnโt give me what I need, Iโd love to speak in more detail about your processes?
Thanks
Me too Iโd love invoice processing for an inventory app
Me too, tell us more @Austin_Lambeth, that sounds very useful
The OCR into Database part?
Are these features going to be included in a base Appsheet License tier(Enterprise, maybe Pro?) or is it going to be a specific add on?
@Austin_Lambeth we are still working through pricing/licensing aspects on that feature. We will have a better answer closer to GA. @Santiago FYI
Hi Jennifer
Thansk for posting this so that we stay focusing on upcoming powerfule feature to add the richness to the appsheet overall.
Unless we attend to the possible turorial session organized by Appsheet team, it could be diffult to get the full pictures to see how Appsheet automation is going to work. I just read the new docs you posted to the documenation, my general quesion which is not answered by myself is what is the major difference between Appsheet Automation & Combination of exsiting features of Action+Workflow. Hopeful we will get the clarity pretty much soon.
Also i m quite eager to know about the details of Appsheet Event Add-onโฆ
For instance, we manually change the value to the cell in the sheet, it will fire the process to update the Appsheet UI ? If so, Appsheet could be turned to be working on Realtime Database.
Read the documents once again, and it is also interesting to see the intelligent document processing. For now , we have OCR function and modeling, but honestly it did not work as expected so I never used on the production app for this feature. Any AI solutions (For the moment() is not always accurage and involved human to correct errors. I hope this new Document AI solution with Appsheet could give us opportunity to give lesson to AI to work better and correct error, and move on.
Thank you again.
@tsuji_koichi the announcement includes a primer which is in tutorial format. I would give that a try and see if you can implement some of the use cases mentioned in there. I am answering some of questions below:
Hope this helps.
Iโm hoping the existing OCR feature will remain or if it is combined with the new data extraction feature that the capability to do custom OCR schemes will stay. So many businesses have miscellaneous use cases that require a custom OCR scheme.
Hi
Regarding the sync when data is added to the sheet, could it be used to update a parent table when a child record is added/changed?
Also, would the sync be visible to the user, meaning the user will see a sync view screen or behind the scenes simply indicating above the sync image that it is syncing?
Thanks
When this feature will be released ?
@Ahmed_Zeidan weโre currently in our Preview stage of rollout. if you have not found the new automation tab in your AppSheet editor you will shortly.
Hello
I was really looking forward to an update related to automation!
Finally owed! Thanks!
The question is: Automation is a set of functions available for PRO accounts or only for BUSINESS?
@raketa Automation is available for PRO as well.
prithpal, thanks for the feedback!
Will it be available for the Pro plan by the time of GA?
Or just for the Preview?
Hi Raketa - Once the rollout is complete this week, all existing customers of AppSheet should have access to the Automation Preview features (regardless of the plan). Suggest you wait until mid this week if you are unable to view AppSheet Preview in the left pane of the editor.
dsharda, thanks for the comment.
But, I already have the Automation function available.
My question is built around the idea that if I now deploy my processes on Automation (on the Pro plan), what development of the situation awaits me with the pricing of already implemented functions.
Hi @prithpal thanks for your clarification.
Yes, controling either async or sync option is not available action/workflow for the moment, which should be completely new on Automation
On the Appsheet Event Add-On, it could be possible that it should be add on to Googlesheet rather than we set up something on the apssheet editor/server side. Just like a event listener which keeps watching the data change on the spreadsheet, and then fire the external API calls targeting Appsheet api, by addressing app ID etc. For instance, when someone change the value directly on the spreadsheet, then this add on detect this change then fire the task such as push notifcation without Appsheet app is not really involved to fire the processs, which is new on Automation.
Then still I have a question. You mentioned,
"can alert the app userโ , yes but we can do the same with Action/Workflow IF the data change is made by the appsheet. Only new thing is the data change made directly to spreasheet then fire.
& the app UI can be synced to get the latest change.
This is also interesting . Sync will happed like the background auto-update which currently happens everey 30 mins? Do you mean the sync still start once the notificaiton was arrived to users and they hit the notication where the deeplink with sync syntax is placed withi the notificaiton? If so, at the end, i dont think there is much of difference between automaiton and existing workflow if the users manual interaction is need to refresh appps.
You can continue to use the data change api via the webhook task as you can today in workflow rules if you prefer that instead. I was just using app notification as an example.
Hello,
Iโll try to make a visualization of the evolution Workflow > Automation
Before with workflow it was :
Now with automation you create every composant separately, lets called them bricks
With those bricks you then assemble a process :
But Hey, nothing stop you to imbricate multiple process in one bigger
A Bot is just a combination of all of this
So you can trigger multiple process of process with embedded condition
Lets build some Lego Now !!!
Thanks @JCadence, I have requested for early access to this feature and never got a response, I am still waiting to see this feature, really need it for important project I am working on, looking forward to have it active soon, so far i cannot see that in my apps yet.
@Ahmed_Zeidan the rollout should be done by the end of this week. Just to make sure you understand that this is a preview release, we donโt recommend you using it in production or against any production scenarios yet till we announce GA.
Many thanks Prithpal
Hi @prithpal
I found a Appsheet Events add-on in the workspace store and added to my account.
Then from my testing app, I got API key and added to add on.
Then I lost my way. What is going to be next step, how and where we do configulate?
Thanks for your advice.
Please refer to the primer for instructions on how to configure the add-on. (See the Employee Onboarding use case). LMK if you still have additional questions.
Hi Ahmed - You should likely have access by mid this week. Also, please be advised that the features are still in Preview (i.e. public beta). So, we do not recommend that you test these features on any critical projects (at least not until we go GA). Thanks for your patience.
Hi,
I have noticed that the create button has disappeared for creating the template for attachment template.
Also when click the view button I get thisโฆ
Looks like you ran into a bug, can you please open a ticket at support@appsheet.com. I can see the โCreateโ button.
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