You can now pad numbers with leading zeroes by setting a minimum
number of integer digits in the inspector. With a minimum number of
four digits, 23 is formatted as 0023. As a bonus, we show how to
accomplish the same thing using formulas and share some news
regarding the venerable IF function.
Some countries use a 12-hour clock in everyday life, but a 24-hour
clock in some professions. Our new release enables you to use a
language that normally uses a 12-hour clock and still use a 24-hour
clock for some time fields.
Assign subject lines to reports you send from apps with our new
release. You can determine the subject line using a formula, enabling
you to include parts of the report in the subject line itself. Use
this feature in conjunction with labels or rules in your email client
to automatically sort incoming reports.
What if you want to limit the number of characters users can type in
a text field? This tip uses validation to alert your users if they
type too much text and show you how to include only a limited number
of text field characters in reports.
The largest apps created with Calcapp can take can take a long time
to load. Today, we are speeding up the process considerably by
compressing apps and PDF reports before they are downloaded.
Reports sent by your users normally contain all fields of your app or
only the fields of the current panel. This tip demonstrates how you
can select precisely what fields to include, which cuts down on the
size of the reports.
Can a formula be used to send reports to many email recipients and
can a button both open a report and send it? Matt posed this question
and received a reply from our co-founder David, who shared some of
our future plans for enabling buttons to execute formulas.
Add steppers to number fields to make it easy to change their values
using plus and minus buttons. Sliders take up more space, but make it
even easier to experiment. There are also new formula functions,
improved support for embedding apps in websites and a rewritten tour
template.
If only some users need to use a large number of fields, start off by
showing only a few and give users the ability to add or remove fields
using plus and minus buttons. We demonstrate this technique using a
sample app that calculates a grade point average (GPA).
Sliders enable users to rapidly change the value of a number field
within a defined range. On mobile devices with cumbersome on-screen
keypads, we expect sliders to become the preferred way of
experimenting with numeric inputs.