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The Calcapp survey
While Calcapp Creator has a few thousand users, getting feedback is always a challenge. We think that we have a pretty good idea of what we’ve gotten right so far and where we still fall short (as discussed in yesterday’s post), but the more feedback we get, the better the product gets. If you haven’t already, please take the Calcapp survey and help us improve.
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Future plans
Thanks to all the email feedback we receive (keep it coming!), we have a pretty good idea of what we’ve gotten right so far and where we still fall short. Here’s an incomplete list of the things that we hope to address in the future:
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What's next: App sharing
This week saw the release of a major update, bringing 244 functions, support for formatting numbers and a function browser. While Calcapp Creator and Calcapp Connect are now far more capable, we still have a lot of work to do.
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Release: Our June, 2016 update is now available
This is the first major update since we launched the first beta in early 2016. We have focused on addressing some of the largest feature requests communicated by our beta testers. Here is a high-level list of the changes:
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More flexible layouts for your apps
The way the fields of your apps are laid out will change with our upcoming release. Field captions will no longer be limited to one row, and neither captions nor the fields themselves will be cut off arbitrarily. (The new release does away with trailing captions.)
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Formula functions specific to Calcapp
Of the 244 functions supported by our upcoming release, 242 are intended to be compatible with spreadsheets and two are specific to Calcapp: ISDEFINED and BLANK.
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New formula syntax
We’ve made a few changes to the way you write formulas in our upcoming release, mainly to improve compatibility with Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet applications. With these changes, it is far more likely that you will be able to carry over formulas simply by copying them directly. These are the changes:
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Removed layout features
While our upcoming Calcapp release brings many new features to the table, a few are slated for removal. We are removing trailing captions and separators.
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Feature: Switches
Our upcoming release will feature 244 functions, support for formatting numbers and a function browser. Amid all the major new feature additions, minor features can easily be missed. One of these is support for switches, which allow users to easily toggle the value of a logical field.
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Feature: Formatted numbers
In the current release, output numbers are always formatted with two decimal places at most. Input numbers are left alone. This is obviously quite limiting, and providing you with better control has been at the top of our to-do list for a while now. To format numbers, you use the new inspector at the left-hand side of the window:
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