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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

Monitoring app usage and app sync performance

The options available under the Manage | Monitor tab allow you to monitor and manage several app usage parameters:

Figure 7.31 – The Manage | Monitor sub-options

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, the Monitor option has four sub-options:

  • Automation Monitor: If you have configured automation in your app, Automation Monitor allows you to find out the various steps of the automation a bot is executing and whether there are any errors in the automation. We will not discuss Automation Monitor any further in this chapter. You will understand the Automation Monitor in Chapter 8.
  • Usage Statistics: This option lets you know about the app usage pattern of all app users. It also lets you know statistics such as how many users have used the app in a calendar month and how many users have used the app daily in the past month.
  • Audit History: This option shows a log of the interactions app users...