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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

Views

In this section, we wish to introduce a trick that is useful for controlling the View type option of Inline View. By default, you may see Inline View as deck, table, or gallery, but you can explicitly control those types. For example, you can change the Inline View type to either a chart or map type if you want.

Creating a chart or map view

The sample app's name is Chapter 12_10: https://www.appsheet.com/templates/sample?appGuidString=e29e2aba-9fe8-4a19-a339-f60851285815.

We are pretty sure you will have a question: “What are an inline chart and an inline map?” Okay, these are probably not official terms used in the AppSheet community, but we named them this way to help you out. Let’s dive deeper into this.

See the sample detail view in the following figure. This view is for the parent table’s row and we will normally see Inline View at the bottom, which comes from the List type view (the virtual column, which is automatically generated...