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Stop Describing Your App — Now Appster Can Just Read It
App-Bridge connects your AppSheet editor directly to Appster Chat, allowing Appster to read your tables, formulas, automations, etc. - massively speeding up working with AppSheet.

Matt
Mar 253 min read


The Scammers Have Leveled Up: Phishing via Real AppSheet Automations
Scammers have started using AppSheet apps to send phishing emails!

Matt
Sep 12, 20252 min read


An Agentic Overhaul for Appster Chat
Appster chat has gone through an agentic overhaul! It went from Q&A chatbot, to fully-blown agentic reasoner capable of taking actions to answer your question.

Matt
Sep 9, 20252 min read


Troubleshooting AppSheet File Column Issues in Google Shared Drives — And a Quick Workaround
This morning, I hit a snag while working on an app for a medical client, and I thought I’d share the experience in case it helps others in the same boat. The Setup We’ve structured the client's AppSheet app to work entirely from a Google Shared Drive. The shared environment is ideal — everything lives in one place, making it easy for multiple team members to access files and folders without ownership headaches. All the automation tasks that generate files (like PDFs, reports,

Matt
Mar 22, 20252 min read


AppSheet User Pass: A Game Changer for Public and External Users
For years, a major challenge with building AppSheet apps has always been the licensing structure for external or public users—people who simply need access to an app without the ability to edit or build applications themselves. Until now, AppSheet required a full license for every user, even if they were only logging in to perform a single task—like a truck driver completing a safety briefing before entering a construction site. This pricing model made certain types of apps f

Matt
Mar 10, 20253 min read


Unlocking the Power of a Date Table in AppSheet: A Simple Yet Game-Changing Hack
If you've been working with AppSheet for a while, you know that managing date-related records across different tables can be tricky. Whether you're tracking transactions, logging activities, or creating reports, the challenge is always the same: how do you efficiently connect and reference records based on dates? Well, here’s a happy little hack I discovered that really makes a lot of things much easier. Example of the Date table The Core Idea: A Dedicated Date Table The prem

Matt
Feb 17, 20253 min read


AppSheet’s New Gmail Integration: They Just Made My Old Solution Obsolete (And That’s a Good Thing!)
A year ago, I built my own AppSheet-based solution to solve the problem of processing Gmail contents using data from an AppSheet app. I called it Gmail Responder , and it was a pretty slick setup. It involved a coordinated system of AppSheet automations and Google Apps Script to monitor Gmail labels and generate draft responses. Available for my subscribers But getting it all to work? That was a process. I had to generate scripts to create and monitor Gmail labels, sync the

Matt
Feb 10, 20253 min read


The scammers and phishers 🎣 have found AppSheet! (Well... kinda)
A google alert brought this story to my attention: The emails appear to come from the noReply@AppSheet.com address, but it's a Meta/Facebook thing. Nothing to worry about Just some scammers trying to convince people that their Meta/Facebook account is going to be deleted. Classic ploy to get someone to click on that button to go to some site. Whoops! 😂 Looks like someone crossed the streams Hey scammers... AppSheet has nothing to do with Meta! 🤣 As AppSheet becomes more a

Matt
Jan 9, 20251 min read


Revolutionizing Rapid App Development: How Appster from MultiTech Visions Beats Vanilla ChatGPT
Appster is tailored to AppSheet topics and nuance, vs. vanilla ChatGPT.

Matt
Nov 19, 20243 min read


From Idea to Reality in 2 Hours: How AI Helped Me Create a Fully-Functioning RPG Management App
Ai, AppSheet, OpenAi, D&D, tabletop role-playing games Over the end of year holidays, I had the opportunity to work on an exciting project that combined my love of tabletop role-playing games with the power of AI. My friend Josh and I used to play D&D together all the time, and we were discussing the many ways in which AI is changing the world when he posed an intriguing question: "Wouldn't it be cool if you could play D&D with AI?" I immediately saw the potential for combini

Matt
Jan 10, 20234 min read


How To Create A Clickable Link To A Specific Record (for an AppSheet app)
AppSheet, External Links, Texts, Push Notifications, Emails UPDATED: 3/16/23 If you're like me, eventually you'll want the ability to send someone a notification of some kind: - An email - A text - A push notification itself And you'll want an easy way for the recipient of that notification to get into the specific record you're dealing with. (Sometimes in a specific view too) The Formula HyperLink( CONCATENATE( "https://www.appsheet.com/start/YOUR_APP_ID_HERE”, L

Matt
Oct 31, 20222 min read


AppSheet Macro Keyboard
A macropad full of AppSheet formulas

Matt
Sep 29, 20226 min read


Best Practices for updating an AppSheet app (when you have offline users)
AppSheet, app development, mobile apps, offline users How can I manage updating an AppSheet app that's deployed if I've got offline users ? How can I make sure that I don't break the app for anyone offline? What do I do if I need to make emergency updates to the app, and those updates include adding a column to the table, but I've got users in the field without connectivity? If you're in anything like the situations above, and you're not using the enterprise license for your

Matt
Sep 22, 20223 min read
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