Changelog

We’re excited to launch a new version of the Retool Inspector! By reducing clutter and improving consistency across components, we’ve made it easy to find important properties when you need them most.

With this re-design, we're adding:

• A new add-ons section
• Progressive disclosure for list editors
• Advanced panels
• More consistent property grouping

New add-ons section​

We’ve added a new section under “Content” called “Add-ons”. These add-ons include properties that were formerly known as “Adornments”, such as prefix icons, suffix text, and tooltips.

We’ve also split some components up into their constituent parts and are adding them to “Add-ons” as well. Each of these add-ons has its own properties and corresponding Inspector view (e.g. the Label add-on below). These add-ons are also visible on the editor canvas and can be directly clicked to open up the right panel.

Progressive disclosure for list editors​

Currently, we use the list editor pattern for adding event handlers. We're now applying this same pattern to Add-ons, Validation rules, and Styles. This hides away properties that have not yet been set, but can be added on an as-needed basis. You can add any of these properties by clicking the plus button next to each list editor’s header.

Advanced panels​

Instead of showing every property in each section, we now hide less frequently used settings inside of an advanced panel. You can access these properties by clicking on the advanced button in the header of each section.

Consistent property grouping​

Each component now has the same three sections, which makes it easier to find similar properties across different components:

• Content: Data that gets piped into the component, as well as any add-ons.
• Interaction: Event handlers, validation rules, and any properties that impact the behavior of the component.
• Appearance: Properties that change the look of a component, such as layout, style, and show/hide toggles.

We're excited to see what you think! Feel free to send any feedback to jessicasun@retool.com.

A line of sight into your business operations is critical to decision-making as you scale. With Usage Analytics, Retool admins have a single place to:

• Monitor all app and user adoption.
• Gain insight into aggregate usage to effectively manage teams and apps.

Usage Analytics is available to all Cloud and Self-hosted customers on the Enterprise plan. You can access it in your Organization settings.

Usage Analytics for Self-hosted deployments requires Self-hosted Retool v2.113 or later. Check out the docs to enable Usage Analytics.

The Response block in Retool Workflows allows for synchronous webhook runs. Workflows can now return data as a webhook response at any time during a run or upon completion.

The Response block works in conjunction with the Webhook trigger and enables you to configure your own responses. You can specify the HTTP status code and a JSON response body to return, which can include any data from the workflow. For example, use a workflow to look up a customer's mailing address based on their email, use multiple blocks to return different types of data depending on execution logic, or even use a Response block as an error handler to signal that something went wrong.

Response blocks are represented as a new block type; just drag out a block, select Response in the context menu, and your webhook will now wait until the Response block is executed to return. Check out the docs to learn more.

Introducing the Smart Block, bringing the power of GPT-4 and AI into Retool Workflows.

Treat the Smart Block like a natural programming step in any series of tasks you want to automate: just drag a Smart Block onto the canvas, identify the dataset you want to pass in with your request, and complete your prompt with a set of natural language instructions. Then, just run the block and return your data for use in your automations: summarize hundreds of rows of raw product data, create entirely custom systems to classify or filter requests, or even execute AI-authored code––all in Retool.

The Smart Block is free to use and available now for all cloud organizations. To learn more, read the full announcement, or check out the docs.

Offline mode in Retool Mobile enables users to continue performing read and write actions whenever the internet connection is lost.

Reads: Screens and parts of the app that users have visited while online are cached and available when the device is offline.

Writes: Users can continue performing write actions with cached data. Once the connection is restored, Retool Mobile syncs the changes back to the server.

You can now run Retool Mobile apps on Zebra Android devices to utilize Zebra scanners and hardware sensors.

• Added Backspace/Delete keyboard shortcut to remove blocks in Retool Workflows.
• Added contextual callouts for recently added blocks to the Workflow editor in Retool Workflows.
• Added support for uploading CSV files into existing tables in Retool Database.
• Fixed an issue where a query's confirmation message may not appear when using the latest runtime.
• Fixed an issue where clearing a form with JavaScript may not function correctly when using the new runtime.
• Fixed an issue where initial form data may not be set when using the latest runtime.
• Fixed an issue where the PDF component may crash when loading certain PDF files.
• Improved messaging when a user does not have permission to edit an app.
• Improved messaging when enabling shared credentials for OAuth resources.
• Improved the query editor schema browser when using Retool Database so that it always up to date.
• Improved the results pane UI in workflow blocks.
• Improved the Slack integration with support for Slack API operations.

You can now add an interactive map to Retool Mobile apps. Users can view their current location and interact with specific location markers.

Previewing an app used to require navigating to presentation mode and waiting for all the queries to reload. Today we’re launching Preview Mode, a faster way to preview apps directly in the editor without automatic query re-runs!

You can access Preview Mode by clicking on the icon in the top right corner of the editor, or using the Option+Command+Enter keyboard shortcut.

Along with this new Preview Mode, we’ve also released some changes to the app header.

Updated share modal

You can now select viewer app links of the latest release or live release to share with your organization.

Consolidated app details and documentation

You can now edit all page information by clicking the app title. This includes the app title and description, Editor README, and end user documentation.

Quick access to resetting app state

To make resetting the app state easier, we’ve added a button on the Status Bar at the bottom of the editor. This can also be accessed using the Option+Command+R keyboard shortcut, or in the App actions menu. We’ve also made this action more clear by renaming it from “Reload all queries” to “Reset app state.”

We’ve added the ability to work with Plotly charts inside of Retool Mobile. Now you can take your dashboards on the go with built-in support for line graphs, bar charts, scatter plots, and more.