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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

Sequentially executing multiple actions with grouped actions

At times, the app may need two or more actions to be invoked one after the other. In such a scenario, you can group several actions in the Grouped: Execute a sequence of actions action type.

You can group several actions as a group action. However, there are certain precautions you need to take while configuring the group actions:

  • The actions included in the grouped actions need to be from the same table on which you configure the group action. You can, of course, have a reference action from that table included in the group action. This reference action can, in turn, invoke a data change in another table. However, you cannot directly include other types of actions from other tables in the group actions.
  • The first action of the sequence of group actions cannot be a delete action. A delete action essentially halts any further processing of the group actions.
  • You cannot configure non-row level actions such...