Hello Gliders,
Welcome to September!
The team was keeping very busy in August, so if you’re just settling back in and need to catch up, here are some big things you should know about:
- Glide Big Tables got live updates; goodbye manual refresh/resync!
- Inline templating lets you combine data within components and actions
- Use AI to build custom components via conversational prompting
- The new Optimize Image action generates a lean JPEG hosted on Glide
- Glide certification renewals are coming up; retake your exam in Glide University
- The Send Email action will consume updates as of Monday, September 16th
Also…
Weekend maintenance this Sunday, September 8th 
Glide will undergo scheduled maintenance for approximately 10-15 minutes this upcoming Sunday, September 8th at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET.
Glide apps and the Glide builder will be temporarily unavailable during this maintenance window. Anyone who tries to access Glide or a Glide app will see a temporary maintenance message.
New Glide features, fixes, and updates 
- The Table and Data Grid components now let you bind columns from the current row as column headers
- Glide now returns an error when a Set Columns action fails due to the destination table not loading in a timely manner
- Glide API request errors now contain more specific details
- New CSV to JSON computation converts CSV to JSON in one step
- Fixed a bug with source selection on Query columns
- Fixed an issue with Table filter badges when not using queryable data sources (++ cleaned up the filter badge appearance)
- Initial release of the Optimize Image action, see related forum thread
- Improved the new AI component with smarter default values when it’s not connected to data columns
- Handful of improvements to our billing system, e.g. not showing a “Next Bill Date” when there is no upcoming bill
- Fixed a bug with action configuration in the layout editor showing the table for the containing screen, instead of the table displayed in the collection
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- Removed inline templating from the data editor
- Inline templating can now reference user profile values
- Inline templating in action workflows can now reference prior workflow steps
- Actions than can only be used in action workflows have been removed from the layout editor, e.g. If-Then-Else, Rollups, Make Array, etc.
- The Glide builder now shows a notification for exceeding row usage limits
From the community 
- How to design an app (Glide blog)
- Building your digital transformation strategy (Glide blog)
- @Marc-Olivier built AI Custom, a picture search engine with dynamic gallery grid
- @RichardYM shared how to set up choice components w/ default values, outside of a form
- @Rien_Dumore built an AI-powered app that lets you ask questions about a webpage
- @Connor_Finlayson shows us how to build a credit payment system in Glide
- @Robert_Petitto dropped a tutorial on dealing with pagination in API requests via Make
- @Himaladin shows us how to enhance collection components with “zero state” messages
Have something to add?
- Share what you’re working on in Project Showcase
- Share helpful tutorials, tips, and tools in Community Resources
- Share your feature requests in Feature Requests
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