How to make a mirrored histogram in AppSheet
Here’s a mirrored histogram that an app of mine displays: As they say on Sesame Street, the bars of the histog...
Tips & Tricks
Find and share best practices on getting started, building an app, and more, to help you create successful apps with AppSheet.
Forum Posts
Feature: Form View
Are you in need of a form in your app? Receiving an error? Give the following a try: What is a form view? One ...
Feature: Dashboard View
Are you in need of a dashboard in your app? Receiving an error? Give the following a try: What is a dashboard ...
Team Members keeps using wrong date year
I use appsheet to input new jobs, and every now and again a salesperson will input a date that is in the past....
Dividers / subheadings in detail view
Hi! I recently added the following subheadings to a detail view of mine: Here’s how I did it: I put the text t...
Generating Relevant App Images
This simple map application plots the locations of Amtrak train & bus stations around the United States, along...
How to get "randbetween" numbers that change only once per hour
I’ve made an app for language learners and I’ve set it up to display one of 123 “inspirational” quotes in the ...
Marking transactions settled in the order they were created
So here’s a tricky one. I have a table which records sales transactions. If the transaction type is Credit, th...
Integrate Google Sheet, Drive, Calendar, sites with MIT App inventor2
I work as Process Analyst in DXC Technologies. My 10 year old son and me develop Android Apps using MIT App in...
Multi-Page Forms
I added a help doc describing the steps to create multi-page forms. Multi-page forms are commonly used to grou...
Small changes, but it helps lots. (change multiple columns values by single action)
I might noticed this change bit late, but found useful. Thank you Appsheet team. Not sure if this was announce...
Upgrade App (change data providers)
Hi There, I’m looking for an opinion in regards to the best option to upgrade my current app with a different ...
Auto-Generate Map Image From Address
I found a free web service that’s easy to integrate with AppSheet for generating map images based on an addres...
Retrieving Domain from Email
I was making an app which required partitioning based on the domain of the user email and initially struggled ...
Quick Explanation: How Virtual Columns Affect App Performance
Improving performance by getting rid of unnecessary virtual columns Questions Hi @Hyman_van_Zyl it is very unl...
Tips for editing expressions more comfortably
I have three little tips regarding editing expressions that I’d like to share today. You can adjust the size o...
Initial value
Hi, I have 02 text fields: [VALIDATION] and [DATE]. How can I give an initial value “now ()” to the field [DAT...
Simulate a Timer in your app
This sample app shows an example for how to create a timer in AppSheet. Feel free to use any features in the e...
Loading Icon Animation
A couple of great free apps to create your animated loading icon for your appsheet apps are inkscape and gimp ...
Directional quotes anywhere you want them
In formulas (expressions), AppSheet doesn’t distinguish between directional quotes (left and right different) ...
AWS Cognito Deep Dive
I was looking for more in-depth information about AWS Cognito, before I dive in deep myself. Here is a great w...
Searchbot - new app idea help
I need some ideas on getting started with a new app our company employs many field technicians each technician...
Getting your company image in the email 2.0
Hi all, (i accidentally deleted my first post so i am putting it a second time on the community) Is there a wa...
Assistant View
The ‘Assistant’ view that’s available by default in every app is a handy tool for performing ‘intelligent’ sea...
Sliding Actions
In Deck Views you can enable ‘Sliding Actions’ that initiate the action of your choice, depending on the direc...
At most one true value
This app has a yes/no column called Status. It demonstrates how to make it so at most one row in the table has...
Table Permissions
When you first connect your data tables, make sure you’ve set their permission levels, and be careful about le...
Enabling Barcode & NFC Scanning
Quick instructions for how to enable barcode scanning in your applications:
