Hello everyone! I have a question about updates in an application that I have mounted in GlideApps.
I have the “Legacy Pro” plan active in which I have up to 10,000 updates available. Among the applications I have, I already have 8,000 updates and I have more than 23 days left for the next cycle.
In the image an example of one of the applications. The biggest consumption I see is in adding rows and editing rows. Of the 4,410 updates between those 2 items, I occupy 4,352. This application is in Google Sheets. Should I move it to a native Glideapps table since I understand that adding, editing and deleting are not counted as updates there?
Updates to native tables are only free on the new plans.
So just migrating your existing App from Google Sheets to native tables won’t have any significant impact on your update count. You would need to switch to one of the new pricing plans. To work out whether or not that would be cost effective, you need to consider not only updates, but also the number of users, and whether they would be using personal or business email domains.
Just keep in mind that once you switch from a legacy plan there is no going back. So you should only do it if you are 100% certain. Team & Business plans now offer a 30 day free trial, so you could take advantage of that without releasing your current plan.
I understand what you comment, I have to evaluate it well, maybe then an option is to create the App that consumes more separately, under a new plan and with Glide tables.
I quite literally just went through the same thing… Only I didn’t inquiry before doing it, would’ve helped to know those things in advance. Lol
I did see a pretty significant drop in the updates count after switching to Glide Tables exclusively, I assume it’s due to the count constantly increasing when I had “Extra” mode selected for syncing to my Google Sheets.
Still worth the move, the only thing I really miss is the automations I had built in on Google Sheets and being able to copy/paste the values a lot quicker. I’m still happy that I made the switch, definitely a smoother experience for the users.
I also deactivated the “Extra mode”. About what you say about copying and pasting values faster, at least in my case I have been able to do it and it is quite fast. I had before a column with AI applied to more than 1000 rows, there it consumed a lot of update resources. Finally I copied them to a simple text column and eliminated the AI column I had (to be able to impact better in the next billing cycles). About Google Sheets formulas, there are some functions that natively Glide solves very well, there is even an “Excel” option maybe those will work for you, depending on what you were automating.
