Hello Gliders!
I’m back from family vacation with a fresh sunburn and a bucket of updates to share with y’all. Plus: a special shoutout to the NoCode UK team for hosting their first ever conference in London yesterday.
Let’s get into it…
Event: Transforming Data into Business Outcomes
The team at Elementum are experts at turning data into outcomes. Join co-founder and COO David Blonski as we talk about leveraging data to make your business operations run faster, smarter, and cheaper.
RSVP for next Wednesday, May 29th at 12pm ET / 9am PT
Take Glide to Work month continues
Our Glide to Work Giveaway continues through next week. Share Glide with your peers and colleagues for a chance to win a new MacBook Pro and hundreds of $$$ in Glide account credit.
Check out Glide’s updated Template Gallery
We’ve overhauled our entire gallery to better showcase the available Glide app templates and give you more useful information about what each template does.
Check it: Browse templates created by the Glide team and the Glide community.
New Glide features, fixes, and updates
Related to our new Table and Data Grid collection components:
- Added tag and choice columns to Data Grid
- Added column type icons to the Table and Data Grid components
- Added accent options to buttons in the Table component
- Added “back” pagination navigation to the Data Grid component
- Table navigation actions now default to current screen
- Table choice columns now show values when they’re not actually options
- Fixed Table component styling across different themes and containers
- Fixed Table and Data Grid header styling for non-sortable columns
The rest:
- Select mode returns! Now you can configure components by clicking on them in the editor preview and in the component tree.
- New Glide AI > Generate Text > High Power v2 option uses GPT-4o
- Image-to-Text v2 also uses GPT-4o
- Check out the announcement thread for more details
- Increased Call API and Glide AI default timeouts to 5 minutes
- Improved the clarity of update consumption/usage on custom actions
- Experts with an Agency plan can now transfer apps to teams on trial plans
- Fixed collection row sorting when hitting a reload action on queryable data
- Fixed a bug with zip codes on data imports to Glide Tables
- Fixed edit condition visibility for lists and other collection styles
- Fixed a UI bug with collection filters on slide-in screens
- Fixed UI performance on iOS, particularly for horizontal scroll interactions
- Fixed a bug with missing groupings in the Kanban component
- Fixed a minor issue with custom filters hiding tags on Kanban cards
- Fixed an issue with action history not saving individual action steps
- Fixed a security bug with emails triggered from public apps
- Fixed an issue with failing Google authentication
- Fixed an issue with sending group/channel messages to Microsoft Teams
- Fixed performance issues with Lookup columns on Single Relations
- Fixed a bug with single-value columns not updating
- Fixed Glide app template previews on mobile
New resources from Glide and friends
- Case Study: How Glide became a software multitool for ITV
- Enhance Your Apps With the Redesigned Table Component
- How to Make a Google Sheets App With No Code
- Video: How to automate lead generation with Make
- Intercom’s guide to knowledge management in the age of AI
- 100 School teaches you AI and no-code skills in 30 mins a day
From the community
- @Trustin created a quest map with Rich Text components
- @Gideon_Lahav_Busines shared a variety of templates for business apps
- @david started a thread to show off your Table and Data Grid designs
- @S11 shipped a Glide app for validating your half-baked app ideas
- @Himaladin showed us how to build a continuous 3D carousel with CSS
- Also check out the slide-in carousel and autoplay slideshow tutorials
- @abdo shared a similar tutorial for photo galleries with custom CSS
- @Darren_Murphy’s thread on Tables → Big Tables migrations got a bump
- @Rupert shared how to add line items with DocsAutomator v3
Have something to add?
- Share what you’re working on in Project Showcase
- Share helpful tutorials, tips, and tools in Community Resources
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That’s it for this week!
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