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Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet

You're reading from Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet A citizen developer's guide to building rapid low-code apps with the powerful features of AppSheet

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803241173

Length 396 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Appsheet

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (3):

Suvrutt Gurjar

Koichi Tsuji

Takuya Miyai

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Introduction and Getting Started

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with AppSheet FREE CHAPTER

3. Part 2 – App Editor and Main Features

4. Chapter 2: Understanding App Editor and Data Sources

5. Chapter 3: Presenting App Data with UX/Views

6. Chapter 4: Manipulating Data with Functions and Expressions

7. Chapter 5: Manipulating Data with Behaviors and Actions

8. Chapter 6: Controlling App Users and Data Security

9. Chapter 7: Managing the App Environment

10. Part 3 – Advanced Features and External Services

11. Chapter 8: Automating Recurring Data Changes and Scheduling Tasks

12. Chapter 9: Using Intelligence and Advanced Features

13. Chapter 10: Extending App Capabilities with Third-Party Services

14. Part 4 – App Templates and Tricks for App Building

15. Chapter 11: Building More Apps with App Templates

16. Chapter 12: Tips and Tricks

17. Chapter 13: Appendix

18. Index

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Manipulating Data with Behaviors and Actions

In this chapter, you will learn how to configure various actions to enhance the user experience. Actions are powerful behaviors that enable users to make quick data changes in an app and navigate effortlessly to various views in the app. Actions also allow users to navigate outside an app to another AppSheet app or a website.

After learning how to configure various views in an AppSheet app in the previous chapter, we’ll cover the following topics in this chapter:

Understanding actions and action types
Using app actions for navigation and working with CSV files
Configuring data change actions
Using external actions for external communications
Sequentially executing multiple actions with grouped actions
Offline and sync behavior of an app

By the end of this chapter, you’ll have learned how to use and configure different actions for data changes within an app and navigating within and outside...

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Authors (3)

Koichi Tsuji

Koichi Tsuji

Koichi Tsuji works as Representative, CEO at Vendola Solutions LLC. He is a AppSheet pro consultant and developer. Koichi also runs the Appsheet community in Japan.

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Takuya Miyai

Takuya Miyai

Takuya Miyai has been working in the IT industry for years with expertise in the Salesforce. He holds a number of Salesforce certifications. After meeting with AppSheet and being fascinated by the possibilities of AppSheet for the coming future, his direction of life has been completely changed. By joining Vendola Solutions LLC, he is actively working as AppSheet professional consultants to help the AppSheet communities and his clients. He is also acting as an active community member with a decent coding background for no-coding solutions

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Suvrutt Gurjar

Suvrutt Gurjar

Suvrutt Gurjar works as a Freelancer (AppSheet Solution Architect Partner since 2016). His professional qualifications includes Certification in Google Data Studio (2019-valid till August 2022), Certification in Microsoft Power BI(2017), Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (2015), Project Management Professional from 2005-2018, and Professional, Academy of Healthcare Management (PAHM) certification from AHIP (2012). His educational background includes Electrical Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai.

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