Creating CRM in Appsheet Part 1
In the realm of business, efficiently managing customer relationships is paramount. AppSheet provides a robust platform for creating a custom CRM system tailored to your unique needs. This tutorial kicks off our series by guiding you through the initial steps: designing your database, implementing key features, and leveraging custom expressions. The first step in creating your CRM is to design a comprehensive Contacts table. Essential fields to include are: ContactID: A unique identifier for each contact. Name: The full name of the contact. Email: The contact's email address. Phone: The contact's phone number. Additional
Viewing previous balance in Appsheet
Managing financial transactions and keeping track of balances can be challenging in any application. AppSheet provides a powerful platform to not only store transactional data but also to dynamically calculate and display previous balances using custom expressions. This tutorial delves into an expression that calculates a user's previous balance, ensuring accurate financial tracking within your app. The expression provided offers a method to calculate the previous balance for a specific house in a transaction record: IF( COUNT( SELECT( Transaction[DateTime], AND( [Houses] = [_THISROW].[Houses], [DateTime] < [_THISROW].[DateTime] ) ) ) > 0, ANY( SELECT( Transaction[Running
Viewing your own data in Appsheet
In multi-user applications, ensuring that each individual has access only to their relevant data is crucial for privacy and efficiency. AppSheet offers a powerful feature to achieve this personalized experience: slices combined with the USEREMAIL() function. This tutorial will explore how to set up user-specific data views in your AppSheet applications. The Importance of User-Specific Views Offering personalized data views not only enhances user experience by filtering out irrelevant information, but it also adds a layer of security and data privacy, ensuring users access only the data meant for them. Prerequisites An AppSheet account
How to integrate Slack with Appsheet using API
In an era where instant communication is paramount, integrating Slack with AppSheet via its API presents a powerful solution to streamline workflows and enhance team collaboration. This guide will walk you through the process of setting up an integration that leverages the best of both platforms. Why Integrate Slack with AppSheet? The integration of Slack with AppSheet can transform how teams communicate about app data, updates, and notifications. By automating messages to Slack channels or direct messages based on events in your AppSheet app, you can ensure that your team stays informed in real-time, enhancing
How to integrate Google Forms with Appsheet
Integrating Google Forms into AppSheet applications opens up a plethora of opportunities for collecting data efficiently. A common challenge, however, lies in effectively managing image submissions from Google Forms. This tutorial will walk you through the integration process and offer a clever solution to handle images submitted via forms. Google Forms is a powerful tool for gathering data. When integrated with AppSheet, it allows for real-time data collection directly into your apps. This synergy can be especially useful for surveys, feedback forms, event registrations, and more, where images may be submitted as part of the
Understanding PDF filter (Part 3)
Part 3 of our exploration into leveraging AppSheet's FILTER expression for PDF generation introduces a more nuanced approach: combining multiple conditions to achieve precise data filtering. This method is particularly useful when generating reports that require data to meet several criteria before inclusion. The FILTER expression is versatile, allowing for the inclusion of logical operators such as AND, OR, and NOT. In this installment, we focus on using AND to combine conditions, ensuring that data must meet all specified criteria to be included in the PDF report. The syntax highlighted in this tutorial: <<Start:
Regenerate Appsheet Structure
Before diving into the "how," let's briefly discuss the "why." Regenerating structure in AppSheet serves several crucial purposes: Adapting to Changes: As your business grows or changes, so do your data needs. Regenerating structure allows you to update your app's data model to accommodate these changes. Performance Optimization: It helps in optimizing app performance by reorganizing data structures and queries, ensuring efficient data retrieval. Data Consistency: Regenerating structure helps maintain data integrity and consistency throughout your app. Synchronization: It ensures that data stays synchronized between different data sources. Now, let's dive into the steps
Getting Started with Appsheet
Hello there, I'm Aris Azhar, and I'm thrilled to share my personal and professional journey into the world of app development using AppSheet. Creating custom apps has always been a passion of mine, and AppSheet has been an invaluable tool on this exciting path. In this blog post, I'll guide you through the process of getting started with AppSheet, sharing my own experiences along the way. Why AppSheet? Before we dive into the details, you might be wondering why I chose AppSheet for my app development journey. AppSheet stood out to me for several reasons:
