June 24, 2021

willwitman
Staff

Deployment Time: 11:27 AM PST

Features & Enhancements

Item Description
Feature A new action type was added: Navigate back. This type allows automation pipelines to send the user back to the previous screen.
Performance Enhancement and Bug fixes We're beginning to roll out an update to the app expression runtime that includes several substantial performance optimizations as well as a few bug fixes. Currently this will only affect expressions running locally within the app, like slice filters or virtual columns that update dynamically within a form, and will not affect expressions running on the server, like security filters or virtual columns computed during sync. However some of the same optimizations should be applicable to the server and will be considered for a future update.

The optimizations primarily target expensive Slice filters and LOOKUP, SELECT, and IN functions and can potentially make these run many times faster, particularly when multiple layers of filtering are involved (like a LOOKUP within a SELECT filter, or a SELECT within a Slice filter).

Deployed to 20% of free users.

Bug Fixes

Item Description
Bug Bots with a scheduled Event using a slice can now use Processes defined on the slice's source Table.
Bug Issues were fixed where certain list expressions produced blank inline views. Another issue often reported to customer support where some Slice and SELECT filters involving EnumLists produce wrong results in the app that don't align with the expected results from the expression tester.

Deployed to 20% of free users.

Bug An issue often reported to customer support was fixed where some Slice and SELECT filters involving EnumLists produce wrong results in the app that don't align with the expected results from the expression tester.

Deployed to 20% of free users.

Rollout changes

None.

Preview announcements

The AppSheet Preview program lets app creators try out new app features that are not yet fully supported. Learn how to participate in the AppSheet preview program for app client features.

What's currently available in the Preview program?

Item Description
Feature Google BigQuery data source

For details, see the official announcement on the AppSheet Community.

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 Filters in AppSheet applications
  • App users can now filter items from a collection of records based on column values. The feature is available both on mobile devices and desktop computers. Learn more.
  • In the Search box, you can now filter by label.
  • Strings in the filtering interface, such as Done, Clear, Contains, and so on, can now be localized under UX > Localize.
  • In filtering, Yes/No attributes now support custom Yes/No display values.
  • App users can now search by columns of type EnumLists.
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