What is the purpose of Linked Tables

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Hello the community,

As I am growing in knowlegde on Glide, I was looking for precious information about the purpose of Linked Tables. I didn’t get the answer I was looking for while searching the web or the community so does anyone has a clear explaination about it?

is it :

  • only to link fixed data to multiple apps?
  • to allow row level management?
  • manage database field accrosse multiple apps?

Not sure to understand. Thanks in advance for your help
Stan

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Linked Tables allow you to share data between applications. So for example, if you were building an administrative backend application (back office) and a client-facing application (front office), you may choose to link a table between them that stores data both applications may need. In this example perhaps the back office application allows writes, whereas the front office application allows reads only, or only updates to specific fields.

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thanks. So it’s managed data/ information that would be available to multiple front end client, right?

would it be interesting for user app with personal data from these user depending of a paying plan (plan 1, upgrade to plan 2,3…) or not?

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Yes that’s correct.

Typically you cannot share user tables between applications, although I believe it can technically be done (not advisable).

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