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Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet

By : Koichi Tsuji, Suvrutt Gurjar, Takuya Miyai
Book Image

Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet

By: Koichi Tsuji, Suvrutt Gurjar, Takuya Miyai

Overview of this book

Many citizen developers regularly use spreadsheets in their business and day-to-day jobs. With AppSheet, you can take your spreadsheets to the next level by enhancing their ease of use. The platform allows you to run your business efficiently and manage it in the field outside of an office or indoor environment. This book enables you to create your own simple or medium to complex hybrid apps for business or personal use. As a beginner to AppSheet, this book will show you how the AppSheet Editor works and how it is used to configure, test, and deploy an app and share it with others as users or co-authors. You’ll learn about widely used features such as how to use data sources, create app views and actions, construct expressions with AppSheet functions, and make your app secure through security and UX options. Next, you’ll create email/attachment templates and develop reports/documents based on templates, store in the cloud, and send files through emails. You’ll also understand how to integrate third-party services and monitor various usage statistics of your app. As you progress, you’ll explore various features with the help of sample apps that you create using the book. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to make the most of AppSheet to build powerful and efficient applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Introduction and Getting Started
3
Part 2 – App Editor and Main Features
10
Part 3 – Advanced Features and External Services
14
Part 4 – App Templates and Tricks for App Building

Actions

In this section, we will share a few useful tips and tricks for the advanced usage of AppSheet actions. They will help you develop custom features for navigation from one view to another, as well as data manipulations.

Forcing sync upon navigating to the target view

When you guide your app users to another view by navigating from a certain view, you may need to ensure that the users will access the most recent data at the time they navigate to the next view as much as possible. The most practical solution is to let the app always sync upon moving to another view by using a deep link action. For instance, you can set an action to move to another view using the following expression:

Linktoview("Next View Name")

Once this deep link action is invoked, it moves to the target view without syncing the app. This means the next view the app user is accessing may not really reflect the most recent data, as it is possible that the other app users may have edited...