Explore the app editor

Explore the AppSheet app editor as described in the following sections:

Quick tour

Watch a quick tour of the AppSheet app editor.

Quick Tour: AppSheet app editor

 

Explore your app

After you create your app, it is opened in the AppSheet app editor and you are greeted by the welcome screen. Try out your live app in the welcome screen, then click Customize with AppSheet to proceed to the AppSheet app editor, as shown below.

 

 

Explore the app editor

As shown in the previous figure, the app editor includes three main areas that enable you to:

  • Navigate your app to select the section you want to customize.
  • Based on the section selected in the navigation bar, access the learning center or customize your app to change the styles, control how your data is presented or navigated, configure security requirements, and more.
  • Preview your live app to interact with and make changes. See Explore the app preview
  • Quickly track down warnings or errors in your app. For example, click Warning icon in the tools panel to display the Errors & Warnings dialog. Click Go to problem, to navigate to the issue.
    Errors and warning dialog

See also:

Navigate your app

Use the left navigation to select the section of the app you want to customize.

Navigate in the app editor

The following table summarizes the features that you can select in the left navigation.  

Feature

Description

Data 

Define how AppSheet connects to and manages your data. See Explore your data and Data: The Essentials.

App App icon

Style your app, control how your data is presented, and more. See App design.

Actions Actions icon

Create buttons for navigating in the app, making data changes, or opening external links. See Actions: The Essentials.

Automation Automation icon

Define automated processes to run in response to specific events. See AppSheet Automation: The Essentials.

Chat apps 

Create and publish no-code Chat apps with AppSheet. See Chat apps: The Essentials.

Intelligence Intelligence icon

Incorporate machine learning into your app, such as sentiment analysis, predictive analytics, and optical character recognition. See Machine learning.

Security Security icon

Define the security requirements for your app, such as requiring users to sign in. See Security: The Essentials.

Settings Settings icon Configure settings, such as theme, performance, localization, and more. See Configure app settings.

Manage 

Manage app versions, monitor usage and performance, and more. See Manage and monitor.

Learn  Get started with AppSheet and learn more about specific features.
We've made some improvements to the app editor.
You are opted in to the new editor by default, but you can switch back to the legacy editor at any time.

If you are using the legacy navigation

The following table summarizes the features that are accessible from the navigation bar in the app editor.

 

Feature

Description

Info

Manage informational details of your app.

Data

Define how AppSheet connects to and manages your data. See Data: The Essentials.

UX

Style your app, control how your data is presented, and more. See App design.

Behavior

Create buttons for navigating in the app, making data changes, or opening external links. See Actions: The Essentials.

Automation

Define automated processes to run in response to specific events. See AppSheet Automation: The Essentials.

Security

Define the security requirements for your app, such as requiring users to sign in. See Security: The Essentials.

Intelligence

Incorporate machine learning into your app, such as sentiment analysis, predictive analytics, and optical character recognition. See Machine learning.

Manage

Manage app versions, monitor usage and performance, and more. See Manage and monitor.

Customize your app

Customize your app in the middle pane based on the feature selected in the left navigation. For example, you can customize the data in the tables on which your app is based. 

Virtual columns displayed at the bottom with a different color edit icon

Each page you see in your app is known as a view. You may notice that AppSheet suggests views based on the data you connected it to. You can change or customize the views in your app, as described in Views: The Essentials. Examples of different views are shown in the following figure.

Whenever you make edits to your app, the save button in the top right corner turns blue. Make sure you click on it so your edits are saved. Saved changes are immediately available to use in your app.

Save app

Explore your data 

In the app editor, go to Data   to view and edit your data structure (tables and columns). 

Tables are comprised of columns, which are the attributes that describe each row, such as Item IDName, Description, and so on. Rows contain the data for each individual record in your data source. The rows in each table share the same set of columns.

 In the app editor, use the table and columns settings to control how your data is displayed in the app, the data types, the initial values, and more. Click View data source to open the data source and see your data. 

Your data is stored separately from your app

Your AppSheet app connects to your data source, it doesn't import your data. Your data resides separately from your app. As users interact with your app, all changes are stored directly in the data source.

Remember that when you use the app preview in the app editor, you are interacting with the live app. Any data changes you make while interacting with the app preview are saved to your data source. 

To learn more about preparing your data, see Data: The Essentials.

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