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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Views

In this section, we wish to introduce a trick that is useful for controlling the View type option of Inline View. By default, you may see Inline View as deck, table, or gallery, but you can explicitly control those types. For example, you can change the Inline View type to either a chart or map type if you want.

Creating a chart or map view

The sample app's name is Chapter 12_10: https://www.appsheet.com/templates/sample?appGuidString=e29e2aba-9fe8-4a19-a339-f60851285815.

We are pretty sure you will have a question: “What are an inline chart and an inline map?” Okay, these are probably not official terms used in the AppSheet community, but we named them this way to help you out. Let’s dive deeper into this.

See the sample detail view in the following figure. This view is for the parent table’s row and we will normally see Inline View at the bottom, which comes from the List type view (the virtual column, which is automatically generated...