Combining Screens from Different Accounts to Merge Together

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#1

Hello All,

I am teacher leading different groups of girls in a mobile app competition. I am asking if there is an update on ways for the girls to merge or combine screens from different accounts. I saw that you can save an app or screen to combine them, but I think that is under the same account/user name. I have also seen posts about merging that it is not possible, but they were from a year or two ago. Just wondering if this merging of screens from different accounts is possible at all or if there was an update. Is there maybe a 3rd party app that can do this like how you can merge apps in MIT App Inventor? I appreciate all of support, discussions, and tips in this community. I have my fingers crossed.

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#2

You can definitely copy screens even if the project was made in a different account. First remix the project so that it shows up as editable in your account. Then save the screen. Then create a new screen from the saved screen.

Just know that copying screens isn’t a perfect process. You may end up with duplicate variables (I can help you fix that) for example.

#3

I’d like a better way to do it, too! Same story - multiple kids working and we need to merge their stuff.

Doing a remix also messes up database connections. So when we made a copy of their app that used a Google Sheet, it replaced the data source with an internal datasource (with placeholder data). That’d be OK if I could easily put it back to the external Google Sheet, but it required changing /every/single/block/ that pulled values from the sheet. And when I changed each block back to the Google Sheet, I also had to change each column value back from the first one. One at a time. That was a pain, and I won’t remix something with a database component again if I can possibly help it.

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#4

Yeah, that data source link breaking drives me crazy!

I reported a related issue here:

But you might want to make a bug report as well.

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#5

I think this is not quite the same bug, so I’ll file another. Thanks.

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#6

Will the database issue also occur if they use Fire base or Airtable? Are these easier to remix and copy over than using Google sheet?

#7

Airtable, yes. Google Sheets, yet.

Firebase, no. Firebase is really nice because you just use text strings to indicate paths to values. So there’s no additional block needed that might get un-synced when you copy or restore a screen.

Firebase is definitely the way to avoid this problem.

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