Hi all,
I wrote a small app driven by some data in Excel as I was not aware of the updates limitation. I have re-done the app using Glide big tables and deleted the original app but I’m still getting the same error.
I’ve tried creating a new team and transfer the app over as suggested in some other forum post but wasn’t able to do this since the app uses big tables.
thanks in advance.
Rob
What do you mean? The table isn’t transfering? Or the system won’t let you transfer the table?
Wow, interesting… @Jeff_Hager @Darren_Murphy @ThinhDinh Am I missing something here or is it possibly just a bug since free plan were not allowing glide big table in the previous version of plans?
It could be a limitation that has not been removed since free plan changed? Right?
I think the message is pretty straightforward. It says apps with high-scale data sources can’t be transferred.
@RobertM Unfortunately, transferring an app that uses external data sources does trigger an update which is enough to put you over your limit of zero on a free plan. I wish glide would handle this better, but unfortunately they don’t. Your updates quota should reset at the end of your monthly cycle, but I’m not sure how long you would want to wait.
Is it necessary to use big tables for your use case? Do you have more than 25k rows? The free plan only allows 25k rows for glide tables as well as glide big tables, so I don’t really see much of a benefit to using big tables on a free plan.
I think your best bet is to rebuild using regular glide tables and then transfer that app to a new team folder.
Thanks for your explanation Jeff. Yeah I think this is handled pretty poorly by Glide.
I don’t really need big tables as I doubt I will have more than 1-200 rows but I was tempted to use them as they seemed the latest and greatest. Do normal tables offer the same functionality (apart from size)?
I’ll convert the app manually see how it goes.
Big Tables is the direction that glide is going, but they also have several limitations that are not present with regular glide tables. Someday they will become one and the same, but it’s a ways off yet. Personally I would avoid big tables if you don’t need them for large amounts of data. There are way too many limitations and workarounds required to get things to work properly with big tables.
We are working on supporting transfer of apps with Big Tables.
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