Hey Tulip community. I am kicking off a YouTube account where I will be sharing tutorials and strategies for building Tulip apps!
Check out the first Tulip video here, where I highlight 10 quick tips. You may already know some of these but hopefully, even an experienced Tulip user can learn a thing or two. It is a quick 6-minute video, but I expect to be making more content of all kinds. Let me know what you think and if there are any ideas for more Tulip content!
Love tip #10! Keep it up @danielpomeranz . Iâd love to see some streams of builds from start to finish. We donât have enough of those out in the wild.
Hi @danielpomeranz,
this is a great start. I like it 
I have two additions for the second one (jumping to a table).
Clicking the middle mouse Key always opens the link in a new tab (no context menu needed). If you hold shift while using the middle mouse key, it will open in front instead of in back
If you use Edge as a Browser, you can right click and choose to open in split screen. Then you have your table next to the App and you can resize the areas. On the top right you find a menu (âŚ) to switch to a new tab or close the split screenâŚ
The one with the distribute widgets is one I donât like, because it behaves weird. When the widgets are not equal sized, the distribution is not for equal gaps (as MS Office behaves) but for equal distance from the top left corners. That makes them partially overlapping and partially having huge gapsâŚ
Edit: This is a Trick, I often use and you might want to mention it:
If there is some calculation, that could need some bug fixing later or can get a bit special or so, I prefer adding a calculation step.
So the Button trigger is only a transformation to this calculation step, there I have âon step enter triggersâ and a transformation to a target step.
This has some benefits:
What do you think?
@thorsten.langner YES! These are all amazing pieces of advice. I hope the Tulip community continues to spread and share so that we can all spend more time focusing on architecture and less time on clicking.
I definitely will plan to make a more advanced video for all the power users out there.
Love it @danielpomeranz, looking forward to the next one.
Iâve got a bunch:
You can search variables/functions/table records by typing them out in the drop-downs. E.g., Type âDâ for Data Manipulation (This is a trick that usually works in website drop-downs). This lets you move VERY fast when youâre used to the interface.
(For GxP people) You can store files/documentation in application variables, which become uneditable when the app is released, but can still be downloaded through the variables manager.
You can create a simple approvals workflow for data by giving records a âStatusâ tag and creating a âRequestâ record. The âReview/approveâ application can update the Status when all the approver fields have been populated. Iâm on LTS 10 right now but if youâre on the biweekly branch and can use automations, then this will be way easier.
+1 I use these âkeyboard shortcutsâ a lot! For example, in making a trigger:
and so on.
I would contribute two more -
Device Outputs are accessible in Expressions! In your âWhen Barcode Scanner Outputsâ trigger, itâs common to think you must first save that output to a variable and then compare on that variable - no need!
Simplify your triggers by referencing @Device Output.data directly in your assignments or comparisons!
Need to delete triggers quickly but donât want to click into the Trigger Editor, click Delete, and click Confirm? Just click âCutâ instead, and itâs gone! (I have a product suggestion in to add a âdeleteâ icon here, so perhaps this is no longer needed soon 
)
Showing how to copy slides from one app to another is confusing enough that I would count it as a trick