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JayWhite
Qrew Trainee
7 years ago

Newbie looking for help on the best application architecture for a complex app

Hello, I am very new to Quick Base and playing with the trial.  While under the trial I am most certainly not going to fully develop this app, but my hope is that I can find a platform in a way to mak...
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JayWhite
Qrew Trainee
6 years ago
Thanks Chayce,

I really do buy into the simplicity of future development if nothing else.  For example one major component of the app is going to be to maintain a database of contacts, the contact manager.  That seems to me like it would be a fairly simple system to quickly build out and keeping it isolated could be a real benefit.

I noticed your quick base sync note....  Would I need to sync data or can I just reference tables across apps?  Just wanted to ensure there is no significant performance loss in doing that.  It seems like that would work well on my end but not sure if that creates security issues or otherwise.
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AustinK
Qrew Commander
6 years ago
One thing to keep in mind is depending on how you connect your apps it can cause them to actually share the same resources on the system. So while you may have split them out it doesn't matter because using one app will cause the other to run alongside it. Basically it looks like 2 apps but it is one large one.

There are many different ways to link your apps or the data within them and they all have their pros and cons. Do some research into the different methods and see which one makes the most sense for you. Some of the methods can even block your ability to sandbox an app, if that is important to you then you need to make sure you pick the right method. The link below is a great resource.

https://community.quickbase.com/quickbase/topics/sharing-data-across-quick-base-apps-part-1-cross-app-relationships-table-to-table-imports-and-sync