Is there a plan to add versioning? It now happened twice that I’ve lost all the details of one screen that takes to individual screens and I had to do the work all over again, spent a couple of hours restoring all this. It is unclear why this happened, but it could be related to me changing the tab title. Versioning would help a lot. :woozy_face: :flushed: :blush:

+1 desire for versioning. Because I made a mistake when making some major changes and lost something – I never figured out what I lost – I’ve had spend several nervous hours recreating work that I had done before.

Do you mean saving drafts of your app as you work on it?

https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/definition/versioning#:~:text=Versioning%20is%20the%20creation%20and,are%20improved%2C%20upgraded%20or%20customized.

Not a perfect solution, but occasionally I will make a duplicate of my app, so I at least have a backup to refer to if absolutely needed. A native solution would be better though. As for my sheet, I have a script that makes a backup copy weekly, so I can restore data if it’s ever lost.

Google sheets have versioning so no need to make a backup copy @Jeff_Hager, that said you can never be too careful :laughing: [Screen Shot 2020-09-23 at 4.06.49 PM]

Yes, from time to time the app should take a snap shot of your work and save it. This is pretty common practice in many apps, for example: Word Press, Google docs, Google sheets, etc. If something goes wrong, you can go back to the version that is the closest to where you were before things fall apart @Jen_NYCP [Screen Shot 2020-09-23 at 4.06.49 PM]

Yeah, I’ve definitely referred to the google sheet version history a few times, but it can be painful to parse through if the sheet has a lot of updates, or background refresh is turned on, which can make a version history ever few minutes. But yes, like you said, can’t be too careful. I like that I can quickly look back at what the sheet looked like for a given week, up to a year and a half ago when I created the sheet and script. And I just feel better knowing there is a separate timestamped copy of the sheet that’s separate from the main sheet if anything ever happens to it. It’s the developer mindset in me. :wink:

Hi @Jeff_Hager, What is the backup script like?

[Jeff] How do I make copy of spreadsheet and save it to particular folder? google-apps-script, google-sheets, google-drive-api asked by Jeff on 05:19PM - 26 Jun 15 UTC You can check out this thread.

This is what I use. [image] Backup My Data In My Spreadsheet Glide FAQs First of all, google does keep a history of any changes. You can access them by clicking the link at the top of the sheet: [Capture] I also use this script to backup my sheet every week. The only thing that needs to change in the script is the destination folder. This gives me a weekly backup with a timestamp attached to the name: // Abhijeet Chopra // 26 February 2016 // Google Apps Script to make copies of Google Sheet in specified destination folder function makeCopy() { // generates…

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