Notebooks: Request Share Access
We have recently improved the way Uncountable users can request access to notebooks.
Previously, if you didn’t have access to a notebook, you would see an error message and would need to reach out to the notebook owner to request access. Now, you’ll see a dedicated Request Access page where you can request access and include a message, similar to familiar experiences in tools like Microsoft Word or Excel.
This update reduces back-and-forth, makes it clearer who needs to approve access, and creates a more consistent workflow when sharing notebooks across teams. When approving the request, the notebook owner can choose the access level to grant, such as Viewer (view-only) or Editor (can edit).
How to request access:
- Navigate to a notebook you don’t have access to.
- On the Request Access page, enter an optional message.
- Submit your message.
How to grant access:
- If a user requests access to your notebook, you will receive an in-platform notification.
- Clicking the notification will take you to the notebook, where you can grant or deny access, including selecting the appropriate access level (for example, Viewer or Editor).
Entity Field Version History
Fields on entities (like notebooks, experiments, runsheets, and other items you work with in Uncountable) now include their own version history, so you can see how a single field value changed over time and restore a previous value.
Previously, it was difficult to audit or debug changes to one specific field because you had to rely on broader entity history (or manual tracking). With this update, you can open version history for a field to see only changes to that field.
This is helpful for auditing who changed a field and when, debugging unexpected field values, and reviewing changes to an entity field in contexts like notebooks.
How to use:
- Open the entity you want to review (for example, a notebook).
- Open the field menu.
- Click on the field to audit and select Show version history from the menu.
- Review changes to that field over time.
- To revert, choose a prior version and select Restore edit.
Note:
- Restore respects field permissions. You can only restore values if you have permission to edit that field.
Config Transfer Improvements: Listing Configs + Group Support
The Config Transfer feature, which enables Uncountable users to transfer platform configurations between schemas, now supports exporting and importing more structured configurations, including listing configurations and additional group types.
With this update:
- Listing configs can be now exported and imported with their full structure, including columns and filters.
- All group types on forms can be exported and imported, including List groups.
Current limitation:
- Config Transfer does not support transferring listing configs that use date, datetime, or numeric range fixed filters. Future support for these listing types will be added.
Uncountable Assistant: Modify Listings with Actions
The Uncountable Assistant can now perform common listing actions for you, like removing columns, adding filters, and editing listing configurations.
Previously, making listing changes required manually editing the listing in the UI every time. With this update, you can ask the Uncountable Assistant to apply listing changes directly, and it can ask clarifying questions when needed.
Example actions the Uncountable Assistant supports:
- Remove columns
- Add filters
- Remove filters
- Add columns
- Set column values
This listing modification flow is expected to become the primary way to update listings over time.
Related Recipes Sidepanel Redesign
We recently updated the Related Recipes sidepanel design with a cleaner, more modern UI. The goal is to make related recipe relationships easier to scan and understand, especially for teams who use this view to navigate recipe and intermediate dependencies.
To view these changes, open the Related Recipes sidepanel from either the Recipe or Measurements view in your experiments.
Temporary Calculation Columns
We introduced a new temporary calculation column feature that lets you build calculations interactively with a more Excel-like workflow.
Instead of going through the calculations modal, you can now start a calculation in a temporary column, making the workflow more streamlined and intuitive, similar to familiar spreadsheet tools like Excel.
Temporary calculation columns also make it faster to explore and validate calculation logic before committing it to a permanent configuration.
How to use:
- Add a Temporary Calculation Column to your Recipe view.
- Click into a cell in the new column and enter
=to start your equation. - Click cells in the data grid to insert references into your calculation, including values like Quantity, Volume, ingredient attributes, and other column calculation results.
- Build and refine the calculation interactively (for example, sums and multiplications).
- When you are ready to keep it, click the column header and select Convert to Permanent Calculation.
- This will open the new calculation modal, where you can rename and adjust settings.
- Once saved, the platform will automatically replace the temporary column with a standard column calculation on your Recipe view.
Also included:
- Support for No Source calculations, such as summing ingredient attribute values. When converted to a permanent column calculation, this will appear as Source = No Source in the modal.