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Features & enhancements
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Rollout changes
| Item |
Description |
| Enhancement |
If you edit a column name, you are now prompted to update the name in all places that it’s used in the app. Though, you’ll still need to manually update any column name variables used in template expressions that include the old column name. For more details and best practices, see the Column name property description in Column properties.
New: Deployed to all users.
Previous: Deployed to 100% of free users and 75% of paid users. |
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@lizlynch
When I tested, the feature “Update column name” is repeatedly giving me the following error. Initially I thought , the reason is , I am using it in a fairly large app. But when I tested on a small sample app, the error persists.
The GIF below captures the error.
Are there any other settings that I should be doing or missing anything obvious one. My request will be to inform the development team if it is a genuine error.
I will request community colleagues to update if they have successfully used this new feature and if there are any obvious steps that I am missing.
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@Suvrutt_Gurjar - Apologies for the inconvenience! I did a very simple test and didn’t encounter an error. I’m going to share your comment with the dev team. But I might also suggest you also contact AppSheet Support so they might investigate the error in your particular situation. Thank you for reporting!
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I am experiencing the same error.
@JMPeterson - Thank you for reporting and apologies for the inconvenience. I’ll open a ticket internally.
Thank you @lizlynch for taking it up with the dev team.
I have also logged a support ticket with case ID 1-3121000038182
The support team mentioned that they have escalated it to the specialist team.
In one of the apps I am working on , I need to change the names of several columns for a specific business reason. So any faster resolution of this feature’s seamless working will be great.
I also hereby update that when I tested this feature on a freshly copied sample apps, it did work. I of course did this fresh testing after you mentioned that the feature worked for you.
However, unfortunately, it is not working in all the apps I am trying it on.
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@Suvrutt_Gurjar - Thank you! I’m adding your support ticket ID to the internal ticket. Appreciate it.
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@lizlynch ,
The solution provided by Support team did not help.
They asked to reconnect the table(s) where the 'Update column name" feature is not working. I did so and still the problem persists.
The next step if above does not work recommended by support team was totally impractical. They asked to create a new data source sheet containing only column headers and attach this as a new data source.
Such a solution totally defeats the basic non working of the feature. The feature is provided to save some column renaming time to the app creator. The above step of adding a new data source does not help at all in terms of saving time.
As such I request you to update the dev team to continue to look into why the feature works with certain apps/tables and not with other apps/tables.
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@Suvrutt_Gurjar I’ve updated the internal bug for the dev team. Frustrating that their advice didn’t help.
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@lizlynch ,
May we know if there is any plan to address this issue by the development team?
If we know that they have some ETA on this issue, I will hold on to some major changes to a suite of apps where I need to change multiple columns names in one app and in other app’s where the same columns are used.
It will be a large manual effort as AppSheet drops the column settings including column type on manual name change. So I am waiting to hear any updates on this issue being addressed on priority.
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@Suvrutt_Gurjar - I know that they have been investigating this issue, but no resolution just yet. I sent an inquiry to see if I can get an ETA.
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