Understanding important miscellaneous functions

Let us now understand a few miscellaneous functions that are very useful in our app configuration. We will learn about three functions, USERSETTINGS(), CONTEXT(), and TEXT(), in this section.

Using functions related to the app user

As you will learn in Chapter 6, AppSheet per-user apps or secure apps need you to add the email IDs of the users to the app from the app editor to enable them to access the app. You will learn in detail how to add a user with the user’s email address in Chapter 6. Chapter 6 also explains the USEREMAIL() and USERROLE() functions and their use in apps, so we will just learn about the USERSETTINGS() function in this chapter.

When you distribute an app to your users, there are situations where each user would want the app to show them only certain data, at least for a certain time period. Let us look at some possible scenarios.

In an inventory management app, the manager has assigned the inventory...