How can I copy a table?
I would like to duplicate the structure I already build for a table. Is this possible? I notice I can move a table from one application to another.
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I currently have an app with 73 tables that uses 1.4 GB of storage (and about 10 to 15 minutes of complete down time as the app is copied and nobody - all 74 users - can do anything while it copies). All I want to do is copy the table within the app so that I have a backup of everything in there before I have to delete all the records to test an identified bug (by support) that is in the connected table refresh mechanism and is preventing me from using the table at all. I don't want to export the table to Excel because that always loses information (I have a very large multi-line text field in there that can't be clipped to 256 characters).
So, you can see my dilemma. It is not good enough to tell us to clone the whole app, do a table rename in the cloned app, and then reimport the table. That will kill your server resources just as surely as our time. And, yes, I have voted on that suggestion. But it's a year later and still sitting there with 94 votes. While I greatly appreciate the User Voice mechanism for incorporating our feedback into your product development decisions, I get very frustrated with things like this. It's the biggest reason I left Salesforce after being on that platform for 7 years, as their continued platform development pales in comparison to yours.
So, you can see my dilemma. It is not good enough to tell us to clone the whole app, do a table rename in the cloned app, and then reimport the table. That will kill your server resources just as surely as our time. And, yes, I have voted on that suggestion. But it's a year later and still sitting there with 94 votes. While I greatly appreciate the User Voice mechanism for incorporating our feedback into your product development decisions, I get very frustrated with things like this. It's the biggest reason I left Salesforce after being on that platform for 7 years, as their continued platform development pales in comparison to yours.