Your Glide wishlist for 2024 šŸŖ„

So many great suggestions. Love these:

  • Arrays as source of Choice options and actions when a choice is made
  • More formatting options for buttons and containers
  • A container/list view that truly looks like a table of data displayed in programs like Excel spreadsheet with ability to format column and cell dimensions (to use space efficiently)
  • Please please upgrade the Charts options, we need more chart types and basic formatting options
  • Continue the amazing AI journey
  • Import spreadsheet option with ability to append to existing data or overwrite existing rows

lastly - please find away to make the Advanced API column available for Pro subscribers, e.g. with limited functionality like Get only

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Native payment integration with payment providers like Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, and Paddle.

Use case: Build a customer-facing dashboard that requires a user login + subscription to access the dashboard features.

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Providing the payment button is one of the components that Glide explicitly said to not be brought over from the Classic Apps, and their focus on internal apps, I doubt they will do something like that.

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Calendar - choose colors of events, choose start and end times for day view instead of 24 hour
Map - control zoom when only one point is showing
Zapier - search for rows action

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I had the same issue with my app. The only solve I came up with was to have multiple image columns, each with a different name that is displayed in my app.

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This. Calendar improvements:

-Choose day-start and day-end cutoffs (so 2am doesn’t show, highly irrelevant to 99% of applications). Only display hours needed.
-Let user select custom block length (30min, 1hr, 4hr, etc). Custom, no dropdowns.
-Allow custom colors so calendar types can be categorized.

-Other custom inputs as needed for most scheduling applications. That’s the desire here.

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Short but sweet:

  1. Invest in being best-in-class with Calendars - make them industry leading from UI to integration. Businesses revolve around calendars - be better than the rest; be THE BEST. From this thread I see I am not the only one.

  2. Create an extension of USER table – accessible EXACTLY the same as USER table in actions and components – for storing app-specific local data. Make them free of cheap (1/20th the current cost) by not backing them up. @Jeff_Hager and @Robert_Petitto are more eloquent about the design and usability.

  3. Provide both a Primary Table Row for screens (like currently) and a Secondary Table Row (new). This would solve 95% of challenges when designing logic within the action editor. For example, creating a many to many relation means usually having two objects available at the same time to create/populate a third object. This may be a big lift but it will dramatically simplify creating business Apps (especially integrating with outside apps) cause the hardest thing to do with Glide is to figure out how to get to that ā€˜other’ piece of data from within an action sequence and correlating them.

Congrats on all the great work and energy the team has put in - the results speak for themselves…stellar.

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This please - Private Storage Option

Oh, and this 5 column table that’s been on the glideapps.com website for some time…

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I would love to see:

Airtable Specific:

  • Instant sync with Airtable
  • Airtable to only import data that sits in a view (this would save me a lot records, updates, etc.)

Builder/Designer:

  • Would love to see more components (tabbed containers, etc.)
  • Nested navigation (If someone clicks on a tab in the navigation, a sub-navigation layer)
  • Ability to change the hex code for the dark/light mode, not just accent mode.
  • Add maybe another color option besides the primary accent. Definitely don’t think we need a full color palette but just being able to add 2-3 colors would actually go a long way in customizing the experience.
  • Make the content in containers collapsable.

Automation:

  • Folders for Automations and ability to rename Automation steps

API:

  • Update user-specific fields (i.e. select user by row-id and update field)
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Very new to glide, and loving it. A few things I’ve noticed myself…

Glide Sheets:

  • Ability to undue actions. I’ve noticed that if I delete a field’s value by accident, there is no undue feature.
  • Ability to copy data across fields by selecting one value and dragging it across other cells - the way it can be done in Airtable.

Integrations:

  • More robust stripe integration. Would like top be able to integrate one-off and recurring payments quickly and easily.

Components:

  • More container options - tabs, accordions

Actions and Automations:

  • Add automation functionality so we can perform actions based on time, etc…
  • Ability to organize actions in folders.

Looking forward to what’s ahead.

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Some great things here!

  • Arrays as a source for the choice component.
  • Set columns for multiple relations.
  • Be able to nest a custom action inside a custom action.
  • Increase the reliability of the API.
  • Bring back Call API to Pro plan.
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I would add focus on improving scalability (Big tables and SQL capabilities).

• Option to make more form components required fields such as checkbox and switch.
• More columns and column types for the Table Collection.
• Actions and saved column widths for the Data Grid.

• Option to upgrade to more than 25k rows. Or bring all functionality of Glide Tables to Big Tables.

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The enlarge image action!

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Enlarge Image could have a carousel too please :pray:

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Can you help us develop ā€œhorizontal appsā€?

What I mean is, I have a great app I want to resell to similar organizations. How can I maintain one ā€œcode baseā€ (template?) that I can update to continuously improve a dozen apps with common functionality (for different clients)?

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Recap of upcoming features from Gliding into the New Year:

  • focus on prioritizing feedback
  • improved Speed & Loading
  • dark mode
  • interactive data tables with multiple columns
  • automated actions
  • batch actions (perform actions over multiple rows)
  • merging of Glide Big Tables and Glide Tables???
  • AI datasets

Oh…and I distinctively remember someone saying they’re bringing back Select Mode (or maybe that was just my wishful thinking?)… :upside_down_face:

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Reusable components and some sort of internal logging would make me sooo happy instead of the next LLM feature :pray:

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