We've made so many changes, we had to make a video about it:

Ply now lets you install prebuilt features we call installables. You just need to connect your accounts for the relevant apps, and then the new feature appears in your app as if you built it yourself.

Wanna try? Check out these installables (from desktop):

the option to build and share your own installables 👀

Add a mini-app that generates texts using OpenAI's GPT-3 models. The mini-app can use data from the app you're in, together with any prompt you type, to give you relevant, well-written texts. You can refine these and use them in your workflow:

Try it out in the installables above, or get in touch to use it in your own features.

We now support more than one layer of conditional logic, with nested branching steps. Create powerful workflows to handle your most complex business logic.

You can even nest branches inside of loops, useful when selectively copying items from one database to another (e.g. copying a Google Sheet worksheet into a Notion database):

Now, your features in Gmail can get all of a message's attachments using the new action "List a message's attachments" 🎊 You can include these when creating tasks or records in your other apps, like in Notion:

We also added support for sending emails with attachments, along with an action that lets you create message drafts in new or existing threads 👀

💡 Check out this demo for some ideas on how to use Ply's more advanced helper functionality, including the loop.

You can format text, create links, insert images, and more, in fields like a message body. Selecting content in a supported field opens the text formatter:

Supported fields are marked with icons for HTML (</ >) or markdown (MD↓). You'll also see these icons in output data in HTML and MD format.

You can format text in an interface with rich text inputs. Insert the result into any text field using text formatting in-line formulas:

We've partnered with SmartSuite, the platform that's transforming how organizations get work done. They provide a collaborative Work Management platform that's tailored to your team's needs and goals.

Use our fine-tuned integration to add features to SmartSuite records, and update or retrieve data in SmartSuite from any other supported app. Check out this blog post about our partnership.

Now, you can customize your standalone feature by choosing its background, logo, and progress loader. Choose from our preset background images or upload your own.

Check out this demo to learn more about how to build standalone features for your customers, users, or team.

The search block has become even more powerful, letting the user perform search actions that have required search parameters (e.g. user-, workspace-, or database-IDs).

When setting up the search block, you may see required fields where you can select or map where you want the user to be able to search:

When an integration step can't be completed because it exceeds the limit set in place by an integration, your module will wait a few moments and try the step again.

Your features can now perform : actions that add data to fields in the feature’s context, right in your browser. The Gmail compose context now has actions that add recipients, set a message’s subject, and add to a message’s body. Here's how it works:

When building a flow, these actions will only be visible under the integration if your feature is in the relevant context, and they’re marked with a 🧩 icon. (For Gmail - look in "Gmail Workspace").

you also get all this data as contextual data so you can use it in your feature.

We’ve added support for one of the apps you’ve requested the most. Now, you can add features to LinkedIn , , and . The DM context even has a contextual action that adds text to the message you’re composing.

Spice up your interfaces and messages with our new built-in emoji menu:

We built the data mapper from the ground up based on your feedback and suggestions.

You can now load more results that were retrieved from an integration. You can also add a custom secondary identifying property - useful if some search results have the same name. Also, you can now prefill the block with a search term:

The widget setup panel has been reorganized. The different blocks’ settings are now in helpful, easy-to-understand categories:

It’s been a busy couple of months learning about your uses cases for Ply and working with you to make them happen. They’re been very fruitful for us: we’ve filled in lots of missing features and integrations that make all the difference 🙌

We’ve added a new interface that lets you clean up large collections of data by mapping columns to predefined properties. See a demo here.

You can bring in options from a table, like a column from Google Sheets, so your dropdown is always up-to-date with data from your other apps. Many of you wanted to be able to add unlisted dropdown options, like when you use the dropdown for tagging, so we made that possible too.

We've introduced features that make Ply more useful for teams and generally easier to use 🙌. Also, TNTWB was too much of a mouthful, so we’re sticking to our original name: Ply. Read on to learn about these features!

Create groups and subgroups of users and share module access with them. Adding or removing members from a group will adjust their module access automatically. You can even create synced groups of users from your apps and invite them to your modules.

Remember when nothing happened after you hit publish on a module? We’ve changed that.

Now, you immediately see your module's status and get convenient sharing functionality, like sharing with users and groups with different permission levels:

*Coming soon - Sharing with editing permissions.

The way that modules handle tables of data has been completely redesigned. The difference between items and tables of data (which you can read about here) is now way clearer. We’ve also added helpers, found under “Table functions”, that can filter, join, and otherwise modify tables.

We added alerts to the homepage to show you what you need to take care of, with clear calls to action.

“Flows” are now called “modules”, and they come in three types:

Creating modules is now way easier with a guided, streamlined experience. The wizard is smart; it knows where you are and offers relevant options. It offers the same experience across our webapp and extension so you always feel at home. Plus, you can now choose the sample item to be used when you create features.

We've optimized how widgets react when you click a button; they're more reactive with an instant skeleton loader and provide more information about your module's run status.

Add a URL parameter in the trigger step of a tool or portal and add sample data to the URL when testing the step. You can now use the parameter data anywhere in your module. After publishing, replace in the URL with the value you want to send to Ply.

To learn more, check out this helpdoc.