Migrating from Classic to Legacy Business

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Hi, apologies if this is already outlined elsewhere…

I’m migrating my app from Classic to the new platform. The classic app continues to be a live app with interactions daily etc. I want to use the same google sheet for my new app which is straight forward but the problem is testing etc in the new app as I build it out. I want the new app to use the existing data source but I dont want the test app to update that data source until its ready to go live. I appreciate that any calculated or glide tables etc need to be reworked and I appreciate the app essentially needs to be rewritten. But can I swap from a test backend to my existing live once the dev and testing are complete? Hopefully that makes sense?

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It’s not easy to swap data sources. Screens, components, actions, and computed columns are all deeply linked to there respective tables.

If you are using google sheets, my best advice is to copy the sheet, build off of that, and when you are ready for production, copy and replace the data from the original sheet into the new one.

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Thanks Jeff. Yes, I had come to that conclusion myself. Appreciate your input. And it confirms the path I am progressing down too so theres comfort in that. Thanks again.