Dynamically Switch Database

Howdy! I am using the same app for multiple teams but don’t want to create a template and then continually duplicate the app for each team and simply change the database. The issue is that when I update one update I have to update them all and it is not scalable.

Does anyone have a workaround for this?

Thank you!

Tyler

You want your App to dynamically select a different backend datasource based on the signed in user?

Have you considered using a single datasource and implementing team based roles to isolate each teams data?

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! I have but unfortunately each database is often approaching the 25,000 row limit and I don’t want to slow down search ability. @Darren_Murphy

Row Owners would help with that, as it would limit the number of rows downloaded by each user device.

Anyway, I don’t speak for Glide but I find it hard to imagine they’d consider a feature such as dynamic data source switching (of course I could be wrong on that).

Glide Big Tables (10 million+ rows) is on the way, so that might be something that will help with your use case.

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That is very helpful. The Big Tables will definitely solve my problems. Do you know when that is launching?

Thanks!

I don’t know, but I’d expect sooner rather than later.