Changelog

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.

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.

You can now take multiple photos, preview them, and upload all at once with our upgraded Image Input component.

We're releasing improvements to our drag-and-drop system to make it easier than ever to build UIs within Retool. With our new preview experience, adding and moving components around the canvas is easier and more predictable, especially in nested and dense contexts.

Nested Contexts (e.g. Containers)

Containers no longer change size as you’re dragging over them, making it easier to drag and drop in and out of nested areas:

Dense Contexts (e.g. Forms)

Surrounding components no longer move unpredictably. For example, dragging a Text Input into a dense form is easier than ever:

We want to hear from you! Reach out to dworsky@retool.com if you have any feedback on drag and drop. We’re continuing to add more improvements over the coming weeks.