The new Button column type in the Table component is now available. When enabled, column values render as a button. This allows you to add buttons to trigger actions, queries, and open links using a button.

The Phone Number Input component for web apps is now available. It automatically formats phone numbers, includes a country selector with international dialing code, and can perform validation based on the selected country. The default country is derived from the user's IP address.

A new version of the Key Value component is available on Retool Cloud and self-hosted deployments running Retool 3.22 or later. It contains a number of improvements over the previous component:

• Automatically reflects changes whenever the data source changes.
• Added support for event handlers.
• Various styling improvements.

Retool organization users on the Business or Enterprise plan have the option to apply custom themes on a per-app basis. Previously, app themes were only available globally and required administrator access. App-level themes apply only to the current app. If your organization does not have access to org-level themes, you can still set a custom app theme.

We've also added some expanded typography settings. You can set custom typefaces and font sizes. Not all custom typefaces may work with the line heights used in Retool apps (generally 1em-1.5em).

You can now search for all code within a Retool app, from resource queries and component properties to preloaded JavaScript and CSS. Code search can instantly search for case or exact word matches, and supports regular expressions for fine-tuned searches.

A visually refreshed component library is currently available as an opt-in beta for cloud-hosted organizations. It contains minor style changes to many components, such as:

• An updated color palette.
• Changes to the active and hover state appearance for buttons and inputs.
• Removing borders on input attachments and buttons.
• Fixing inconsistencies with component spacing, font weight, border radius, etc.
• A new look for the Tab and Navigation components.

Any style overrides you've made will still be retained.

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You can create custom URLs for web apps to make them more discoverable and easier to share with end users. With a custom URL set, end users can access apps at {domain}/app/{custom-url} or {domain}/p/{custom-url} if it's a public app.

We're expanding beyond internal tools so you can build nearly any software for your business with Retool.

With this launch, we're adding two new products to help you:

• Ship a secure, custom portal: Build and host portals for your customers, partners, and vendors fully on Retool with external apps which manages signup, authentication, and permissions out of the box.
• Augment existing software: Quickly add data and CRUD functionality to an existing app or portal with embedded apps.

Both external apps and embedded apps are now available across Business and Enterprise plans.

To learn more about how embedded and external apps are changing the way you can build with Retool, watch the overview video.

You can read details in the docs to embed your first Retool app or build an end-to-end portal on Retool.

We rebuilt the Table component to improve customizability, and scalability for our customers. The new Table is capable of rendering, updating, and scrolling through hundreds of thousands of rows and hundreds of columns with diverse data types fast.

It also features deeper customization options:

• Data manipulation (filtering, sorting, pagination) works out-of-the-box and can be configured client- or server-side.
• Advanced filtering and sorting options, such as nested filtering and multi-column sort.
• Primary key configuration to maintain state (like Row selection, or change set) through complex filters, sorts, and pagination operations.
• More intuitive Tag (dropdown and multiselect) columns with the option list editor.
• Column-level event handlers.
• Toolbar actions for more opportunities to perform action with table data.
• Redesigned action buttons, more intelligent defaults (including column width and type), cell captions, column header tooltips.
• Smoother editable cell interactions and improved keyboard shortcuts.

The new Table component is available today and replaces the previous Table component. Existing customers can continue to use the previous version, which is available as the Table (legacy) component.

Check out our docs or the migration guide to get started. To learn more about building a data-driven dashboard with the new Table component, check out the following walkthrough.

You don't have to upgrade existing apps that use the legacy Table component. You can continue to configure the legacy Table in your existing apps, and then use the new Table component when you have an app to build.

If you want to migrate an existing app to use the new Table component, use this guide to learn more about the differences before migrating.

Column configuration​

The new Table no longer supports the Auto column format. Each column must have an explicit format. Each column can contain an optional source key, which maps the column to a field in the data source. If the source key is omitted, the column is effectively a custom column.

Properties​

Some commonly used Table properties have been renamed. Anywhere in your app where you reference these properties, you’ll want to update those references to the new property names.

selectedRow​

The property to access the Table’s selected row changed from table1.selectedRow.data to table1.selectedRow.

currentRow​

currentRow in a column’s mapped values is now currentSourceRow, to make it explicit that it references the underlying source row’s data.

recordUpdates and changeSet​

The legacy Table’s edited fields were exposed in recordUpdates and changeSet. These fields are now changesetArray and changesetObject, respectively. These properties no longer contain the entire row’s data, and instead only contain the modified fields.

Pagination controls​

Pagination controls are now nested under table1.pagination. This means referencing a table’s pageSize, for example, is done using table1.pagination.pageSize. Pagination is now accessible in the Table’s Add-ons section in the Inspect tab.

Save and cancel buttons​

The new Table exposes the built-in save and cancel buttons for bulk editing in the Add-ons section of the Inspect tab.

Sorting controls​

The legacy Table exposed several fields to represent the Table’s sorting state: defaultSortDescending, defaultSortByColumn, sortedColumn, sortedDesc. The new Table exposes the sortArray property, which represents the entire sort state of the table.

Filtering controls​

The legacy Table did not support nested filtering. The new Table supports nested filters with the filterStack property.

Feature comparison​

See below for a feature-by-feature comparison of the legacy Table and the new Table.

Updated approaches to existing features​

Legacy features unsupported in the new Table component​