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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

Adding app users to your apps and defining editing permissions

The next step is to share the app by adding a list of users who are allowed to interact with it. When adding new users, we can configure the permission levels and their roles inside the app to control what those users can do inside our app. They can either edit data or only view the contents. Let’s review the whole process to set this up.

Adding new users as normal users

The process to add new users to your app is simple. All you have to do is follow these steps:

  1. To add new users, just click the icon in the upper-right corner of the app editor, as shown:

Figure 6.2 – Icon to add new users

  1. Then, the following new dialog window will be seen:

Figure 6.3 – Dialog box to control app users

Here, you can add the email addresses of the users with whom you wish to share the app in the input field.

  1. Once you hit the Enter key...