Hey Airtable community, ​@derekwu here with Airtable’s product team.

We launched Managed Apps and components last September and we’ve seen customers use them to power some of their most important workflows. We’re excited to  launch a couple of new features for Managed Apps and components to expand where and how you can use them.

Use Managed components with your existing tables and fields

This is a new capability that allows you to incorporate Managed components into existing workflows. While installing a Managed component, you’ll be able to reference existing tables and fields instead of always creating new ones. Everything else in the managed component will work seamlessly with these substitutions, so you won’t have to rewire your base.

Note: For existing Managed components, you’ll have to publish a new version of the component to your App library before this feature will become available for use with that component.

Customizing sync sources

You can now choose the most relevant view to use as a sync source for each instance of a managed synced table, instead of adding a local filtered view separately. That means data owners can expose only the necessary data to each installation of a Managed App or component For example, if your company was using a Managed App to track projects, you could make sure that Marketing teams only see the company-wide Initiatives and Goals relevant to the marketing organization in the marketing-specific project tracking app.

Alternative source views will need to be shared for syncing and include the fields that were present in the default source view.

In case you missed it: Customizing interfaces

You might have already noticed these changes as they launched in late February, but we wanted to highlight them here! You can now customize many more elements of Interfaces in Managed App or component installations.  This lets teams tailor Interfaces to their needs while keeping the Interface pages managed.

In Interface pages in each Managed App installation, you can now customize:

• Page descriptions
• Logos and cover images on Forms and Overview pages
• Filters applied to page-level data sources
• Sorting and grouping settings in List elements
• Field order, visibility and default widths in List elements
• The order of custom groups in Forms and Record Detail layouts
• Hiding managed groups in Forms and Record Detail layouts 
• Post-submission form settings (redirect URL, success message, ‘submit another response’ message, email notification settings and “Accepting submissions?” status)

Managed Apps and components are available on our Enterprise Scale plan. Learn more about them here.