Local Sheets

Experimental

This feature is experimental and may not support all authoring features. Feedback is welcome

Setting local deployment

By default a separate deployment is used for working with a local-only set of sheets. It can be enabled by setting as the active deployment

yarn workflow deployment set local

In order to run the app viewing sheets from the custom local default instead of default app data folder a different start script must be run

yarn start:local

This will start both the server to run the app and the sync process to convert locally authored sheets, so no other scripts are required

Authoring sheets locally

All sheets are stored directly within the deployment folder, located at .idems_app\deployments\local\sheets

You will see an initial demo.xlsx file containing sample home screen and sidemenu templates. Any additional .xlsx files created within this directory will be processed as app templates

Changes saved will automatically be converted and made viewable in the app after around 10 to 15 seconds

Note

Currently app assets and translations are not supported in local development mode

Troubleshooting

Wrong or blank home screen loaded
This can happen if angular fails to correctly clear caches when swapping between deployments. It should be fixed by ensuring the local deployment is set and then running the yarn start:local script for a second time.