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File Attachments Export

  • May 12, 2020
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I am starting new apps from scratch because the existing ones that we have were created by a consultant. I need to be able to export documents, a table from an existing app, into a new app. When I export the documents table it just has the file attachment name instead of the actual file. So then I thought of doing a relationship between the apps but once we have our new ones up and running we will be deleting the old ones. Is there a way to do this where the document stays in my new app once we delete the other? If there is no way around the relationship from the old app, we can always keep it I guess, but only let it show for me.

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Bethany Dickey
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  • AustinK
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  • May 12, 2020
If you move the table to the new app then your file uploads will remain in place. You will have to reconnect all the relationships after doing this, or in your case create new ones. It is a little more nuanced than that to make sure you don't screw your data up when reconnecting things but most of it is fairly simple. There may be another way to do this too. I just had to deal with a similar thing with thousands of files.

Just don't do any testing without copying your app and working in the copy only.
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