New App builder, Table Display filters, cell embeds, and more!

💅 New App builder​

We’re rolling out an all-new app builder to help you more easily build beautiful Hex apps. It will eventually replace both Story and Canvas layouts, so we’re not calling it anything more exciting than App builder.

The new App builder has:

• Your favorite Story features: Auto-generated layouts, responsive design.
• Those crucial few Canvas extras: Control over placement and sizing, freeform layouts.
• Some new stuff: A grid based alignment system, app width control, multiple auto-layout controls.

We think it’s pretty sweet, and hope you do too! You’ll probably be invited to try it out next time you build a Hex app.

🔍 Table Display filters​

Table display cells can now filter data. Gone are the days of preceding every Table Display with a Dataframe SQL query or pandas one-liner to extract a subset of data for display. Like a spreadsheet, you can use a flexible condition-based UI to quickly filter a dataframe without using code.

All the same logic used for Conditional Formatting is available in filters, and multiple conditions & filters can be combined to create complex logic.

⏱ Scheduled run updates​

You can now add multiple schedules to a single project, and choose to send notification emails on successful and/or errored runs.

Want to quietly refresh data in an app every day at midnight, but only automatically remind your teammates about it on Monday mornings? Easy peasy.

🦠 Cell embeds​

In addition to full app embeds, you can now embed individual cells from Hex projects. Hex embeds work in Notion docs and anywhere that supports iframes— like Salesforce, Confluence, or even this changelog:

For more on embeds, we blogged about this the other week: http://noscreenshots.club/

🌊 New data connections​

We’ve got some new friends, and they all have fancy lakehouses. Hex now connects natively to Databricks, Trino, and Dremio. You can add these to any project or workspace just like any other data connection. Specific instructions on configuring them are available in the docs.

Other improvements​

• SQL autocomplete has been improved for data warehouses that use database “names”, like Snowflake & Trino.
• Code blocks in Markdown cells received some styling polish¹
• pydeck has been added to the default package library for all your mapmaking needs 🗺️.

Bugs squashed​

• We’ve fixed an issue that caused apps without auto-run to very occasionally auto-run
• Several embed style issues have been fixed
• Repaired some minor visual blemishes on Single Value cells