Make the app you are missing.
An app is a table with its views, and a manifest that says what it keeps and who uses it. You make it by answering six questions. It is born off: you turn it on when it is ready.
Apps
To add
Six questions, in order.
What information it owns, where it comes from, what nodes it produces, with which views it is looked at, who can see and change it, what the agent can do. A wrong answer leaves nothing halfway: the manifest is checked before anything is born.
- The name once, then it does not change.
- At most fifty apps per organization.
- Without the declared permissions, the app is not made.
New appWarehouse
- 1What does it hold?Products and stock
- 2Where does it come from?From in here
- 3What does it produce?Rows of a table
- 4How is it viewed?List and board
- 5Who uses it?The Operations team
- 6What does the agent do?Flags low stock
An assistant can build it too.
An external assistant, with a code that writes, has the tools to do it: create a table, add a column, create a view, create a rule, create the app. The same rules apply, and the app is born off.
Your key
Code for an assistant
In detail
What it keeps.
The name, what it is for, and the table with its columns. If it keeps nothing of its own, it is a view: it is not an app.
Columns, said in words.
“Customer, Amount (number); Stage: open, won, lost; Close (date)”: the type in brackets, a choice’s options after the colon. At most thirty columns, and no name that already exists.
Where it comes from.
The team writes it, in here. It comes from outside, for example from a form or a connected service. Or it is derived from other tables.
Which nodes it produces.
Documents, tables, folders, files. Or none: it produces rows.
The views.
Grid (always there), board, list, gallery, calendar, timeline, chart, form, workload.
Who sees it, who changes it.
Whoever can read, comment or write in the space sees it. Whoever writes, adds, or only whoever manages the space changes it. Without this answer the app is not made.
What the agent can do.
In words, briefly. “Nothing” is an answer.
Who creates it, who turns it on.
Whoever has “Create apps” creates it. Whoever has “Create apps” or “Turn on features” turns it on and off. Everyone else sees the ones that are on.
How to use it
Five moves, from the “+” to the app turned on.
Open Apps.
The + at the bottom of the bar, Add or remove apps. Under Your organization’s are the apps that already exist.
Choose New app…
It shows for whoever has “Create apps”. It asks for the name.
Answer the six questions.
One at a time, and at the end a summary to confirm.
Look at the table.
It is born among the first things of the space, with the columns after the default ones, the grid and the views you chose. It opens.
Turn it on.
Turn on: from then on others see it too. If you change your mind, Turn off.
Examples
Made-up people and data.
- Marta, Mirto Labs
A warehouse.
Marta makes the “Warehouse” app: it keeps products and stock, the team writes it in here, it is looked at as a list and a board, the Operations team uses it, and the agent flags low stock. It is born off.
- Luca, Mirto Labs
Pilot customers’ requests.
Luca makes an app that comes from outside: a form writes the rows, and they are looked at on a board and in a calendar. Whoever can write in the space sees it.
- Anna, Mirto Labs
With an assistant.
Anna gives an external assistant a code that writes. The assistant creates the table, adds the columns, creates the views and the app: it is born off, and Anna turns it on.
Connects to
What you do here shows up elsewhere, without redoing it.
Coming soon
No dates: it arrives when it’s ready.
- Add an app from GitHub: an open source app, installed by whoever administers
- A store of templates and apps: pages, tables, spaces and apps to pick and add
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between a view and an app?
If it keeps nothing of its own, it is a view. An app owns a table with its columns.
Do I have to write code?
No: it is six questions and a table. There is no code to write.
Who sees my app?
Whoever you chose at the fifth question. While it is off, only whoever creates it and whoever can turn on features sees it.
Can it be changed later?
Yes. When the manifest changes, it goes up a version. The name is chosen once.
Can I install an app from GitHub?
Not yet: “Add an app from GitHub” is coming, with no dates.
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