🕵️‍♂️ In Staging - Spying All New Features in Glide

[Lucas_Pires]

That’s the topic for all of you spies, sniffer dogs, that are always attentive to everything that the glide launches to test on our Glide’s insiders instance, called Staging

The Insiders instance is only for testing. Don’t build production apps there. Glide might break or even delete them.

Here’s what I found today

That’s also awesome!

in Staging - Create an app directly from a Glide Table!

Also,

Now we can know how many images & files we’re uploading directly in the app

[Robert_Petitto]

Did the Start New App from Glide Table and saw this appear in the User’s tab:

Also…this is new for all other Glide tabs:

[Lucas_Pires]

Yeah! Amazing!

I also tried to upload an image to test image & files storage but it gets forever loading and I gave up lol

[Pablo_books]

Yep, that’s been buggy for me for a month now.

[sardamit]

This addition is absolutely awesome.

Would love an option to duplicate a Google Sheets tab as a Glide Table.

It would help me update all the templates I have published and improve performance.

[Darren_Murphy]

Delete Glide table - wooohooo!!!

[Pablo_books]

OH MY GOD - A NEW BEAUTIFUL LAYOUT IN STAGING

Tab configuarion is now JOINED with STYLE configuration

Sidebar for SHEETS! Now you can add glide tables with the plus button in the corner!

Bug:

We cannot make a tab’s source a glide table
We cannot edit the icon, source, or name of the screen when in details view
Minor things:
Referrals:
Before:

Now:

[Robert_Petitto]

Not sure what “Construct URL” is…but it looks useful!

[Robert_Petitto]

Oh…I get it.

Like a fancy template column. Wondering what the advantages are here over a template column? The fact that it’s automatically formatted as a link?

[ehdubya]

I see some in-app UTM and tag builder/tracking capabilities with this…nevermind ref_URL’s…

Good eye and yet another cool feature Glide team!

[Robert_Petitto]

@ehdubya

in-app UTM

Makes sense.

[Pablo_books]

But couldn’t this be done with the template column?

[ehdubya]

yeah, you can build links with the Template column…but like Robert said, I think the difference is in the ability to change the URL Protocol, Path, and formatting (HTTP/HTTPS). I could be wrong…always a possibility haha

[yinon_raviv]

Probably mimik the encode url in google sheets

[Robert_Petitto]

I’m REALLY hoping for an “encode” column type that can encode in % escape, base64, and md5 hash

[Robert_Petitto]

@yinon_raviv

Probably mimik the encode url in google sheets

You’re correct…parameters are URL encoded! Glide continues to impress!!!

[yinon_raviv]

Yeyyyyy. This is greater. We can use it to create whatsapp links easier now as well as ggole calendar and so much more

[Lucas_Pires]

Have no idea what you guys are talking about

[Robert_Petitto]

Sometimes, when crafting URLs, parameters need to be URL encoded

eg.
Not this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RDmfE0noOJ8

But this:
https%3A%2F%2Fm.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded%26v%3DRDmfE0noOJ8

[Robert_Petitto]

Now all we need is base64 and we’re off to the races!!!