AppSheet Office Hours: Platform and Community Updates

Sara_Bertomeu · ‎02-03-2022

Thanks for your time in my question, but I do not understand so much. Sara, and very nice to ear you online.

iemem15 · ‎02-03-2022

Cloud vision is an api to extract text from documento and imagen.

Ai is to train models based on your final data.

App uses this two in the menu, so you can give some AI to your code.

Greeti gs

lamontfr · ‎02-03-2022

Hi @Lauren_vdv @Former Community Member @pravse ,

Here is a question I posted in the live chat :

A QUESTION TO THE APPSHEET TEAM : What are plans about long awaited APP MODULARITY from the point of view of the App Creator. As AppSheet becomes more powerful, monolithic apps become hard to manage.

carlinyuen · ‎02-03-2022

Thanks for looping me in, Praveen. Yes, we have been exploring ideas here and are actively scoping it out. We hope to have more updates for you later this year.

I'd be quite interested in hearing what your needs are on this @lamontfr -- would you be open to doing a VC call and sharing how your apps are structured and talking a bit about your use case?

lamontfr · ‎02-03-2022

Hi @carlinyuen ,

I will be glad to share my use cases and ideas with you during a VC call. In the mean time, please have a look at a Feature Idea I posted about this : https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Feature-Ideas/App-Component-Reuse-Solution/idi-p/371285/high...

pravse · ‎02-03-2022

I believe we will be taking some steps in this direction this year, specifically with the ability to share data across "modules". @carlinyuen is the feature owner for this and can keep you guys posted as we make progress.

aucforum · ‎02-03-2022

Is this a form of 'reusability' we have been hoping for some time?

TotalSolutions · ‎02-03-2022

When can be have easier wasy to organize the Menu Views into Sub Menus. Please let me know. Thank you!! 🙏😊

aucforum · ‎02-01-2022

Any updates on the progress of reuseable components and items?

There has been some detailed forum discussion on this over time...

mico7 · ‎01-31-2022

Good day! Can we request another type of view on AppSheet, a "KanBan" view? And also a pop-up view when we click the details of an Employee or a Client details so that when we need to go back to the previous view we don't need to click the back button on the upper left because it just pop-up and when we press escape it will exit the view for a faster and awesome view. And another more feature for chart view, I got a limited style there. I hope the AppSheet team can do that. Been praying and waiting for that. Thank you in advance.

WillowMobileSys · ‎02-01-2022

Hi @mico7 . This thread is for requests of questions to be discussed in the upcoming office hours meeting.

If you wish for your ideas to be seriously considered for implementation into AppSheet, please post them into the "Feature Ideas" list. NOTE: You will want to post a separate Idea post for each distinct feature you want AND please be as descriptive as possible to make it clear what you currently cannot do in AppSheet but wish to. Images help but don't just say "I want something like this" and then include an image.

mico7 · ‎02-01-2022

Apology for my comment. Thank you @WillowMobileSys .

WillowMobileSys · ‎02-01-2022

No apology needed...was just informing you so your great ideas can get the proper attention.

Sara_Bertomeu · ‎01-31-2022

HELLO everyone:

It's possible to have a Spanish Speaking in the meeting too. Thanks💥

peterdykstra · ‎01-31-2022

Hi Sara, we'll try to touch on Google Drive connections in general, but are you referring specifically to the Document AI connected folder feature? We may be able to help explain a bit in Spanish, but the default for this event is English.

Sara_Bertomeu · ‎02-01-2022

Yes this is what I was refering, thanks.

I'm using so much, for me the extraction of the information is not bad, always we have to check, but not write in the beginning, this is very good to win time.

There are some problems, that I can't solve, for example:

- If you duplicate a file by error, it's impossible to erase, you can erase in the sheet but again it cames in a minutes. Refering to folders.

- To manipulate the sheet from folders, you have to copy in a new sheet and include all the field and names you need. It can't be edited.

- The differences between using folder and file. I think the way it's the same, but not sure.

But in general is a very good solution.

I know the event is in english but if we need some help to explain or understand, if you can help with our Language, Spanish, it will be perfect.

Always thanks

Sara_Bertomeu · ‎01-31-2022

I'm refering the importa data from Drive. Sorry

Sara_Bertomeu · ‎01-31-2022

HELLO everyone:

I'm using get data from documents on Google drive and it works, not bad, but it needs to improve so much.

Can you explain, how it works in the meeting. Thanks

AaronTerry · ‎01-31-2022

I mentioned some of these before in another post but I'd love to hear about them from the development team.

1. The viewport you've provided us to reply and edit our comments/messages is way too small and doesn't seem to be adjustable.

2. The option to "Lend a hand" was super helpful to both helpers and the helpless. Sometimes the less complex community questions can be answered by the average user and the typical helpers may not have time to help everyone. We don't need a "Lend a hand" page, but volunteer helpers need a way to filter the questions by the oldest posts with no replies.

3. Overlaid actions in dashboards look awful and cramped on mobile but are basically necessary when using any dashboard desktop view or else people need to click the little full-screen arrows. Can we please have two separate options for overlay actions or maybe scale them proportionately to a mobile phone screen so they're not so large, sometimes they even block other buttons in detail views.

Can't wait for the Q&A, thanks in advance to everyone involved!

Kind regards,
Aaron