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Hello Mark & Team,

Upon login (I move past the Login screen to the home screen), I then receive a dialog that says "Appli Setup", "Cannot access billing, subscription, or usage information. Failed to locate server.","OK" .

If I click ok, I get a "Loading Apps" dialog that never resolves.

Prior to now I have been able to login.

I love the direction of your project.

Kind regards, Andrew

We are working on a significant update to the low-code features in Appli. For this reason, we did not post any updates for 1.5 weeks. The changes to the low-code editor will temporarily cause your actions for your elements not to work. We are working on an update that will auto-update your actions for you. If you can not wait, you can copy and paste your actions back into an event. Doing so will make the actions work again.

You can now fold your action flows for easier reading. Copy and paste of actions are here. Shift-click your code to highlight your flows and right-click to copy and paste. Did someone say code validation is needed? When your action flow is red, you may have forgotten to complete an action. A green action flow indicates all is good. More events are now available. We are still working on fully supporting some of the new events. 

We revamped the onboarding screens with more consistent visuals that better match the Appli branding. The experience is easier on the eyes and makes more sense as you build projects.

We significantly improved notch and chin support on phones. All you need to do is identify the elements you want to be drawn into a notch zone. For example, the background to your header may draw into the notch area. If your header is a group, select the group and check the box for 'Stretch Y to fill notch' in the property inspector.

We hope you are enjoying the new project support in Appli. You can easily see all your apps in a single project. We expanded the number of devices you can create per project from one to as many as you want. You can make as many phones, tablets, and desktop apps as you see fit in the same project.

The deciding factor usually is your data. If you need different apps to access the same data or subsets of the same data, now you can do it. If you are making software for a client that needs different apps for their business, this feature has you covered.

We added a visual tool for binding your data to your elements. Click on the form element's no-code. The standard table binding feature and a new button to 'Add Key' will be seen. From here, you can bind your keys to your elements.

It is always good catching up with all of you. Have a great weekend, and we will see you next week!

-Mark Talluto

The kind of data-driven apps that (IMO) no/lo-code is well suited for have a number of common patterns. 
One in particular is so common it's almost ubiquituous:
 - an 'overview' page (either layout or table element) showing all/some of the records of a table.
 - a button within the per-record part of that display which takes you to a view or edit page
 - a button which adds a new record, and takes you to a page almost identical to the view or edit page above

It is wrong (IMHO) that you need to write *any* code at all to achieve this. There should be an option in the right-hand pane while editing a button which allows you to specify that this button changes screen (and gives maybe a drop-down of other screen to select which one to go to), and sub-options to indicate whether new record or the recordID of the current record in the layout.

On those lines, the sample app for contacts has 3 almost identical pages - add, detail and edit. As far as I can see, these have each been described (at some length), though they vary only very slightly (labels on the cancel/save/add buttons, whether or not the 'back' button is visible). There ought to be a way to share the commonality of the pages. For instance, if you decided to add a field (or rename a field like 'first name' to 'given name') you'd have to do it in multiple places.

So there's an additional tiny feature request - copy/paste screen.

In the Appli documentation, chapter 12, it says

For more information, check the Data Management tutorial for a hands-on guide on building database-aware apps.

Anyone know where this tutorial is ?


And, btw, why can I not paste into this input box? I tried to copy/paste the above quote and couldn't.

I know you can already import a CSV file, and automatically create a (data) table from it.

It would be nice to have a simple "wizard-like" way to create an edit/input form for that table; i.e. create an input field+label for each column in the table, just arranged in a single column in the order of the columns. It might be that the user then deletes some of them, and re-arranges them, creates some responsive geometry - but this would be a definite time-saver compared to manually creating then adjusting each field in turn. 
Perhaps allow the user to manually configure one field, and then copy those style characteristics to all the other fields.

It would be good, and I think very valuable for no/lo code, to be able to specify a type/verification for input fields.

That is, you create a field, and can specify that it is :
 - a date, or time, or date+time
 - a number
 - an integer
 - a Zip (or ZIP+4) code
 - a (US) phone number, or international phone number
 - etc. 
As many of those kind of well-known, often used, 'restricted' field contents as you can. 

And also allow lo-code to create a function handler to handle custom verification. Maybe in some sense this is already possible for lo-code - but this would make it super-simple and integrated with the built-in verification scheme.

1. Place a button.
2. Resize it.
3. Copy (via right-button menu)
4. Paste it.

Expected: a new copy of the button (at its current size) should be added.
Actual: a button at the original (default?) size is created.

I encountered an error (execution error within IDE), an it opened a dialog box to allow me to add comments. I did that, then selected 'email report', and sent in the email.

Then I 'close'd the error dialog - but cannot 'Quit' Appli using the standard MacOS menu, which is now disabled.  (Quit from the menu does work at other times).

When you use a database to fill a layout element, with 'multiple rows' selected, you can set the order of display.
However, this is limited to a singe key - it really needs to be multiple keys. Even the simple example (Contacts) is not effective - having e.g. all the 'Smith"s in random order rather than sub-oder by first name.

A 'table' element allows sorting by multiple keys - though I can't remember how to do that, or how get there. The navigation is, I find, sometimes unclear. 

Also, the 'nocode' dialog for layout has no 'cancel' button, while the 'table' one does - no big deal, but an unnecessary inconsistency.

Another example of navigation doubt - the IDE opens in 'project selection' screen, but once I've opened a project, I can't find a way to get back to the project selection screen to work on a different one (of course, I can simply close the IDE, re-start it, type in my password - and then select a different project).

Along the top of the appli IDE there is a row of icons - each with a tooltip.
However, the rightmost three (option, sync, account) - arguably the most important - don't have tooltips.

Similarly, in the rightmost pane (once I've selected, say, a layout), each item has a tooltip - EXCEPT the no-code and low-code icons at the bottom.