April 13, 2023

lizlynch
Staff

Deployment Time: 2:54 PST

Features & enhancements

None

Bug fixes

Item Description
Bug For desktop UI (preview), fixed an issue where the left and right arrows did not respect the filtering and sorting options selected for its parent collection view.
Bug Added localization support for the following message that displays when you press the Back button on an Android device: Are you sure you want to close the app?

This was accidentally missing from the localization pane, but has now been added. Users will need to have version 16.0 of the Android app to see the localized text.

Rollout changes

None

Preview announcements

Preview feature releases enable you to try out new app features that are not yet fully supported. See Product launch stages.

  • No new preview features were released today.

What's currently available in Preview?

The following tables summarize the preview features that are currently available.

Item Description
Feature AppSheet databases (Preview)

The new AppSheet database feature is now in preview release. An AppSheet database is a first-party, native data source for organizing and managing data powering AppSheet apps. An AppSheet database provides an easy and efficient way to build data models for any AppSheet app without needing to use an external data source solution such as cloud-based spreadsheets or databases.

For more information, see:

Enhancement Navigation improvements in AppSheet app editor (Preview)

The app editor includes navigation improvements, currently in preview, to facilitate the configuration of specific features. For example, the new Settings section in the left navigation gathers together all app-wide settings and makes it more intuitive for all app creators to find these types of settings.

For more information, see:

Enhancement Additional usability improvements in AppSheet app editor (Preview)

The app editor includes navigation and app setting improvements, currently in preview, to facilitate the configuration of specific features. The navigation improvements now include a secondary navigation panel that lets you quickly scan all of your components. In addition, there are more direct links in your View component to the table, column, or action that you want to check or edit. Finally, error and warning messages are more prominently displayed in the app.

For more information, see:

Feature AppSheet apps for desktop users (Preview)

The new desktop design, currently in preview, is optimized for desktop browsers, presenting a more complete view of information with a consistent organization and structure. The new desktop design lets users navigate their apps more easily and access information in context, and provides an efficient way to edit existing records without losing context. The legacy desktop design, enabled by default, provides an experience similar to the mobile and tablet device.

For more information, see:

The following features require opt-in to the AppSheet preview program. The AppSheet Preview program lets app creators try out new app features that are not yet fully supported.

Item Description
Feature Table view

Table View now supports freezing the first column while scrolling horizontally. For details, see Freezing the first Column of a Table View - in Preview Program.

Feature Chart Editor

App Creators can now make use of our new chart editor and the new and improved charts it can create. Learn more.

Feature Detail views

Rich text formatting is now available in Detail views. For details, see this announcement in the community.

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ODCP
Bronze 5
Bronze 5

Hello i think this

BugFor desktop UI (preview), fixed an issue where the left and right arrows did not respect the filtering and sorting options selected for its parent collection view.

Have created another bug, it was working properly but now my linktofilteredview works only in mobile.
here is a loom video https://www.loom.com/share/9a8533b668d44eee9582f8a3d97b09df

Denzil_Snyman
Silver 2
Silver 2

@lizlynch Hi. I can confirm in my app the same as the above described by @ODCP 

My mobile is working correctly but in desktop, linked to filtered view just pulls the same 1st record now when clicking on any row. 

 

I'm sure this will be a quick fix with no need of rollbacks. Otherwise my app has been super stable, loops functions and all. 

 

lizlynch
Staff

Thank you @ODCP and @Denzil_Snyman for the ping. I'll pass this on to the AppSheet dev team!

PatW
Staff

Sorry about this, using LinkedToFilteredView to navigate to a detail view was a use case that we've missed when updating the left right arrows.  Will put together a fix.  Expect a fix either tomorrow or the day after!

Fabian_Weller
Gold 1
Gold 1

@lizlynch wrote:

BugSupport localization for the Android back button message. This was accidentally missing from the localization pane, but has now been added. Users will need to have version 16.0 of the Android app to see the localized text.


 

Hi @lizlynch can you share more info about this. I just don't understand what it means 🙃

lizlynch
Staff

@Fabian_Weller - Apologies! The phrase that was added as a localization string is: "Are you sure you want to close the app?" I should have been more specific in the release note and will update this now!

Denzil_Snyman
Silver 2
Silver 2

@lizlynch @PatW

Any progress on the LinkToFilteredView bug. 

Denzil_Snyman
Silver 2
Silver 2

From previous builds, I experienced that the arrow buttons never really showed with LinkToFilteredView, having no arrow keys, however for me it would seem helpful if it still allowed arrow keys and moved through rows based on its parent view with table linked. Not sure what others feel with the LinkToFilteredView.

PatW
Staff

The fix is checked in and we are expecting this to be pushed to production in a few hours.  

Agree that showing arrow keys might be ideal, but unfortunately it gets complicated because a linkedToFilteredView of a detail page MIGHT turn up more than one result, and currently the behavior will be that arrow keys would allow navigating between those rows instead of the parent one.

Your proposal might actually make more sense but we have a strong bias towards existing behavior if it's not obviously broken 🙂

Denzil_Snyman
Silver 2
Silver 2

@PatW

Makes perfect sense to leave as original, thanks to the team for the coming fix. And thanks to entire team, appreciating this platform and helping me grow. 

Denzil_Snyman
Silver 2
Silver 2

@ODCP Seems to be resolved my side with April 2019 release. How's yours responding?

ODCP
Bronze 5
Bronze 5

Hello! Seems to be working as expected, thank you very much!