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Build a custom app

You will assemble a small custom app: a single screen with a few blocks over the data you have been building. By the end you have a focused tool that shows just what a job needs. This uses the category you built and, if you did it, the purchasing from Automate with a wire.

Apps are pages of blocks​

A custom app is a set of pages, and a page is a stack of blocks. Blocks stay structured, which is what keeps a built app safe to render, and the editor previews them live as you compose. You are not writing a layout from scratch; you are picking pieces and stacking them.

Add a few blocks​

The builder isn't in the main nav, so this is the door: open Configuration → Apps, in the Build section, and hit New app. Add a page, then drop in blocks that answer one question well:

  • A Stat block for a count or a sum (how many parts are low).
  • A View block that embeds a saved view, like the "what's low" list from the first tutorial.
  • A Form block that creates a record showing only a few fields, so intake is three boxes instead of twenty.
  • An Action block: a button that runs an action, with your label on it.

Preview as you go. That is a working dashboard-and-intake screen over your data.

Hand it to someone (optional)​

An app only sees the fields you give it, so you can hand a helper a tool over part of your workspace without exposing the rest. Pair it with People & permissions and a member lands straight in the app with only the abilities you granted.

Describe it instead​

You do not have to place every block by hand. The AI builder can generate an app from a description ("a picking screen: the low-stock list and a button to reorder"), which the kernel validates before you apply it. Build one way, then adjust it the other.

You now have​

A custom app over your data. Last step: put a view on a screen anyone can see, no login.