How To - Developer

Tips & Tricks for some of our more advanced users.

How To: Make fields *required* in Form block
1) After you've created the Form block in your app and added all the fields to the form you need to go to the "Developer" section of your app....
Fri, 4 Mar, 2022 at 2:03 PM
Events app: Connect Speakers to Sessions
Goal of this article: Explaining how to create a beautiful and interactive Event app using an Excel block Use Case: In the following example we ...
Tue, 10 May, 2022 at 1:34 PM
Implement a Range field in a Web Service/ Excel block
Purpose With the range property you can highlight categories or display stock status of products for example. Basically you can add an image depending o...
Fri, 4 Mar, 2022 at 2:09 PM
How To: Star Review/Rating System in your app
In this demo app that we’ll show you how to build, your users can leave reviews for restaurants, products or any other thing that you would like them to rev...
Fri, 4 Mar, 2022 at 2:14 PM
Use Dropbox to host images for your Excel data
You can use dropbox to host images that you'd like to use in the app you're building. If you don't have a Dropbox account, you can register one ...
Fri, 4 Mar, 2022 at 2:15 PM
Create a simple (Star) "Rating" view from Excel
AppMachine's "Travel" demo app shows a "rating" element displaying stars. This can be done in Excel. To do so, create a col...
Fri, 4 Mar, 2022 at 2:17 PM
Integrate Uber in your app
This article explains how to use Universal Links to redirect your users to the Uber app. For a full guide on Uber's Deep Linking, please view the Uber D...
Thu, 21 Apr, 2022 at 9:50 AM
Add featured items in a Excel or Web Services block.
For this tutorial, we used our Flowershops demo Excel file. This demo data is available for your testing purposes as well. Add a new Excel block and choose ...
Fri, 4 Mar, 2022 at 2:20 PM
How To: Excel connecting sheet 1 to sheet 2
Note: The demo Excel file we use in this tutorial can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.  This simple tutorial will show you how to connect sh...
Fri, 24 Feb, 2023 at 3:54 PM
Add a YouTube video link in your Excel block
- You will need to go to Youtube - Go to your video - Below the video there is a "SHARE" button - Use the EMBED link. This will look like this:...
Fri, 22 Apr, 2022 at 10:02 AM