January Recap: New Features, Fixes, and Community Highlights

NoCodeAndy
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:48:19 +0000
Archived Announcements

Hello Gliders!

For January, we brought native automations to Glide with Workflows; added new integrations for analytics and AI actions; and snuck some sought-after QOL upgrades into preview.

On the community side, our members shared a ton of new resources and project showcases over the last month. You’ll find some of those linked below.

Let’s get to it.

Note: Glide Experts get a weekly update every Friday with a summary of recent platform fixes + improvements. You should join the program if you’re building Glide apps for your clients.

Add automation to Glide with Workflows

Workflows bring automation to Glide with new triggers, logic, and action steps. Check out the Workflows announcement for details, along with our Workflows webinar replay and official docs.

Workflows Overview

Community Challenge: Workflows

Following the release of Workflows, we launched our first Community Challenge of the year, inviting you to share demos of Workflows built in Glide. There’s $400+ in Glide credit up for grabs! Winners + our next challenge will be announced this week.

Community Challenge: Workflows [Winners Announced] Archived Announcements

Hello Gliders! Community Challenges are back, starting with our first launch of the year: Workflows Workflows let you add automation to your Glide apps, no 3rd party tools required. For this challenge, we want to see you put workflows to work. Use Case We’re keeping it broad for this first challenge. You can build any kind of app you’d like, but it must include at least one of the new trigger types: Schedule Email Webhook And it should make use of: In…

Event: Grow your revenue by offering automation solutions

Eva Živanovič (@evazivanovic) is a Glide Certified Expert and founder of Ziki Solutions. Eva joined Brett Haralson, our Head of Experts, for a Q&A diving into how she’s grown her agency revenue by specializing in automation.

Catch the replay on our site:

glideapps.com

Growing your agency's revenue by offering automation | Glide

January changelog

Note: Features marked with a * can be enabled in Team Settings > Previews.

Features added

Click-and-drag autofill on choice columns in the Data Grid component

Conditional visibility to columns in the Data Grid component

ZenRows integration for advanced web scraping and AI agent browsing

ElevenLabs integration for text-to-speech

OpenGraph.io | Glide Docs for pulling website metadata

Common use cases added to the Workflows editor so you can get started faster

Builder Notes for inline commenting on Layout components and screens*

Flexible handling of complex values to the Glide API

Koala integration for app analytics

Different Choice column options for each row in a Data Grid component

Create File action for Workflows

Language options for Thai and Vietnamese

Stopwatch component, helpful for tracking and logging time*

Pinecone integration for AI-powered document search and chat

Handling of large datasets via the Glide API

Bugs fixed

Table header styling in the Data Editor

Issue with custom “on submit” actions in a form container

Removed UTF BOM characters from fetched strings

Glide apps embedded via iFrame now automatically resize

Icon colors now adhere to your appearance settings

Inline template (referenced data) options now update when changing the data source

Fixed an issue with inconsistent title property behavior on Table components

Increased minimum PIN length for signing in, making your apps more secure

AI Custom component no longer deletes content when off-screen

Duplicating Big Tables no longer copies empty rows

Workflows editor no longer crashes when right-clicking a Run History node

The Create App modal in the Glide dashboard is now more responsive

Rollups over Big Table columns that reference a User Profile row

Integration keys carry over when duplicating apps

Fixed cases where Choice options should be compared only as times vs dates

“See All” option in Card collections is now localized

Following up on December’s announcements

We called out some new community initiatives in our December update.

Here’s what’s going on with those:

Experts Accelerator course in Glide University

This is a “repackaging” of our Experts Accelerator content from last year’s cohort. It complements the existing Glide certification courses. We’re on track to launch in February.

Community Showcase for sharing your Glide app demos

This was delayed due to our work on Glide Workflows. Plus, given we already have a Showcase section in the forum, we’re deciding whether this is worth continuing. More details to come.

More learning options for non-Experts

We held our first invite-only customer training event last week, and we’re wrapping up our Workflows community challenge this weekend. February’s challenge will be announced this week, and we’re planning for more initiatives later this quarter and into the spring.

Is there something specific you’d like to see? Reply to this thread with your thoughts.

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Use Animated gifs in your apps!

Have something to add?

Share what you’re working on in Project Showcase

Share helpful tutorials, tips, and tools in Community Resources

Share your platform suggestions in Feature Requests

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