New App, need to get info from another app
I am in the process of essentially starting over with our project management database and need a little help. A consultant basically built the two applications that we use, Grants (which is all the fi...
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Hopefully just a one time move. A big issue is that the consultant created soooooo many fields with relationships that we don't want so we don't want to delete them and end up deleting any data.
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Hi Bethany,
Is it going to be a one time move of data from your existing app into the new app or is it about connecting data going forward between the two apps?
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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I always start these kinds of projects with a data design on paper of the to-be data model, which you can use and compare with the as-is design. That will make it easier to visualize how the data will map from old to new.
It will be important to understand why those existing data fields and relationships were built in the old model. You may not want or need them for any apparent business reason, but often these kinds of fields need to be added to support or enable the data you do want to see, in the way that you want to see it (especially in QuickBase).
If you have new, eliminated or changed business processes, those should be clearly identified and documented, along with new, eliminated or changed reporting requirements or interfaces with other applications or systems.
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Rob Talbert
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It will be important to understand why those existing data fields and relationships were built in the old model. You may not want or need them for any apparent business reason, but often these kinds of fields need to be added to support or enable the data you do want to see, in the way that you want to see it (especially in QuickBase).
If you have new, eliminated or changed business processes, those should be clearly identified and documented, along with new, eliminated or changed reporting requirements or interfaces with other applications or systems.
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Rob Talbert
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