Advice on how to update an app correctly

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I’ve built an app that people are using, which has projects, tasks and stor names and now Ive been asked to add the CSV solution Matt put together into the app. The problem I have is that it would require child table intervention and from my understanding of the protocol the keys need to be generated in a different way to how Ive set it up with uniqueids for all my keys.

How can I go back and change this so that the current data remains linked correctly?

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Hey Jared

Thanks for pointing out a hole in the information in the protocol guide! I’ve updated the guide to now include a section addressing how to solve this issue.

The solution is to go through and do a mass find/replace for the IDs, replacing the uniqueid() result with a value-based formula.

  • This way the old data in your system will now conform to the newer ID schema.