Microsoft Flow enables you to glue your apps together with
thousands of services, like Excel or Slack, in the same vein as
Zapier. It needs a so-called JSON schema to work, though, which are
tedious to write. Calcapp Creator can now generate them for you.
After a three-year beta, we've finally launched paid plans. In this
post, we take stock of our current position and discuss what lies
ahead, including the introduction of a PDF report designer, buttons
that perform more complex actions through action formulas, better
support for data and more.
We're adding support for paid plans and ending our beta program,
requiring you to upgrade your shared apps to a paid plan. Make your
apps private to require your users to sign in before gaining
access. Use the new Statistics window to gain insights into your
app's performance.
Calcapp now supports paid plans and we are ending our beta program.
To ensure that your apps continue working, upgrade them to a paid
plan before May 14. This post walks you through the steps you need
to take to upgrade your apps.
Private apps require your users to sign in before gaining access to
your app and require you to define who those users are. User tags
determine which users can sign into a particular app. Use the
USERHASTAG formula function to customize your app based on the tags
of a signed-in user.
The new Statistics window uses graphs to shine a light on your
app's performance, in terms of app launches, sent reports and
signed-in users, with a customizable date range. Use it to compare
an app against others in your account or to compare your usage to
your app's plan limits.
Calcapp usage is growing quickly, which has led to intermittent
stability issues. We now deliver apps significantly faster than
before, which greatly improves stability. Our White Label plan
supports 100,000 app launches per month, but we plan on supporting
even higher numbers in the future.
The Manage apps window now categorizes apps by their plans. It also
allows you to sort apps by their modification time, which is great
if you store many backup copies of your apps. Duplicating an app
always puts the copy on the Free plan.
Email report buttons now support setting the Reply-To, carbon copy
and blind carbon copy addresses as well as the attachment file
name. Buttons for downloaded reports now support setting the file
name of the report. Finally, we now support Zoho Flow in addition
to Zapier and Microsoft Flow.
Our next release is just around the corner! We're currently
finishing up feature development work and expect to release our new
version next month. This blog post also discusses some of the
stability problems we've experienced as of late.
