We're back from a team gathering in San Francisco and an official public launch of Runway!
Adding Drivers to your Pages just got easier
Nichole shipped some awesome improvements to make adding the right drivers to add to your Pages a snap. Assembling reports has never been easier.
In the "add" menu, drivers are now grouped by their dimensions, so you can find the exact cut of data you're looking for, and even add them all to a block in bulk.
The menu for managing a driver's attributes is much more helpful. It used to error if you selected attributes of existing drivers, and there was a nasty state where you couldn't get out of this menu.
Now, we'll intelligently add the driver you specify to the page you're on, or take you right to them, if they're already there!
Early access to new features
In our next phase of product development, we're investing in a staged rollout approach so new Runway features keep raising the bar in utility and delight. There are a few betas available to enroll in if you're interested in getting your hands on our latest and greatest features. Interested? Drop us a line at [email protected].
Charts: Improved charts, with more powerful configuration and display options, including several new chart types like Combination, Mixed, and more.
Plans: A more intuitive experience for editing driver values, and interacting with Plans, including per-cell formatting.
Integrations: A streamlined way to set up new integration data to be modelable in Runway databases without needing to write complicated SQL.
Pages: Allowing blocks to be arranged side-by-side on pages to make customizing the layout of your pages even more flexible.
Improvements + Fixes
While we're working on shipping big impact via the betas above, there's a host of quality of life improvements and bugfixes we've shipped. Here's a few that might make your day in Runway a bit brighter:
We had an brief outage last week; Jon made our error and status pages more accessible in the case that Runway is unavailable so you know what's going on and what to expect.
Shinjini made it clear when empty Actuals formulae are inheriting from forecast, by showing a lighter version of the inherited formula.
Our Perf team made Database filtering, sorting, and page loads much faster.
Seb fixed a bug with the wrong column icons showing up in databases.
Jon fixed an issue where you were not correctly routed to a newly created database after pressing Create.
Andrew enabled adding formula filters to find database items without a name.
Xav made a fix for lookup columns: we removed options that would create a circular dependency.
Shinjini ensured driver groups added to a page should preserve the source ordering.
Joe enabled viewing and editing the dimensions a driver has in its detail pane.
Rishi and Shiv let you reference drivers' values in the future via our Date filters to create forward-looking projections.
Lars worked some UI magic to make the share menu and the Driver formatting look more consistent and accessible.
Jon made it so the Customize button is always available on databases.
Rishi included the current scenario's name in CSV exports so you know which set of projections the export came from.
Amelia shipped a tooltip to make the guidelines for integrating Google Sheets much clearer.
Justin fixed a bug where pressing Escape from the "Review and Merge" screen prevented users from getting back into that screen.
That's all for now!