Lesson 7: Building a Home Dashboard + Quick Pull Button (AppSheet Tutorial)

Full Course Outline and Materials Available Here: https://www.firesofalchemy.com/appsheet-tarot-app In this lesson, we create a dedicated Home tab to serve as your app’s dashboard. You’ll learn how to add a new table and view, set it as your default landing page, and design a clean interface with a central “Quick Pull” button. This feature lets you instantly draw and view a random tarot card image—perfect for a fast reading or showing a friend—without saving it to your reading history. We’ll also cover customizing icons, tidying up the display, and adding a background image to make your home screen feel polished. By the end, your app will open straight to a sleek dashboard with a one-click tarot experience. 00:00 Intro 00:40 Adding Home Sheet 01:55 Adding Home View 04:15 Change Default Starting View 04:50 Creating Detail Reference View 07:04 Adding Quick Pull Button 08:15 Quick Pull Button Formula Refinement 10:32 Quick Pull Button Working 14:05 Refining Look of Home Tab You may purchase direct access to the project to support future lessons. Access enables you to clone the entire Appsheet project and modify it as you wish. You will maintain access as the template is updated in future lessons, you can clone as many times as needed. Purchase here: https://buymeacoffee.com/firesofalchemy/e/448459 Appsheet Consulting and Troubleshooting https://buymeacoffee.com/firesofalchemy/e/449624 What’s Covered in Lesson 7 • Creating a new Home table and adding it as a primary navigation view • Setting Home as the default startup screen • Designing a clean dashboard-style view with custom icons and layout • Building a Quick Pull button to instantly display a random card image • Using LINKTOROW() and RANDBETWEEN() to reference a random card ID • Customizing the card detail view to show only the image • Removing unnecessary edit buttons and cleaning up columns • Adding a background image for a polished, welcoming interface Resources mentioned: • https://appsheet.com • https://sheets.new CC0 - Creative Commons Copyright Free High Quality Tarot Deck Scans Available here: • https://archive.org/details/rider-waite-tarot/ Follow Fires of Alchemy https://www.firesofalchemy.com ~ For more insight into my style of readings, the history of tarot and more - see my website below: --- https://www.firesofalchemy.com/blog/tarot 🃏 --- Support future readings and expanded content 🤝 https://buymeacoffee.com/firesofalchemy #TarotApp #AppSheet #NoCode #TarotTutorial #PocketTarot #DIYApp #FiresOfAlchemy