# Combining Screens from Different Accounts to Merge Together
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/combining-screens-from-different-accounts-to-merge-together/1188791
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [March 26, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/combining-screens-from-different-accounts-to-merge-together/1188791 "2021-03-26T14:50:12Z")
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### Author:  [@sascha.j.simkanichdc](https://community.thunkable.com/u/sascha.j.simkanichdc)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/combining-screens-from-different-accounts-to-merge-together/1188791/1 "2021-03-26T14:50:12Z")
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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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/combining-screens-from-different-accounts-to-merge-together/1188791/2 "2021-03-26T15:00:04Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@catsarisky](https://community.thunkable.com/u/catsarisky)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/combining-screens-from-different-accounts-to-merge-together/1188791/3 "2021-03-26T15:20:37Z")
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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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/combining-screens-from-different-accounts-to-merge-together/1188791/4 "2021-03-26T16:19:53Z")
Yeah, that data source link breaking drives me crazy!
I reported a related issue here:
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> Platform
> Thunkable X
> Issue/Request Origin
> Steps to Reproduce
> Create and save a new custom data viewer layout
> Select the custom data viewer layout as a "List...
But you might want to make a bug report as well.
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### Author:  [@catsarisky](https://community.thunkable.com/u/catsarisky)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/combining-screens-from-different-accounts-to-merge-together/1188791/5 "2021-03-26T16:25:16Z")
I think this is not quite the same bug, so I’ll file another. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@sascha.j.simkanichdc](https://community.thunkable.com/u/sascha.j.simkanichdc)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/combining-screens-from-different-accounts-to-merge-together/1188791/6 "2021-03-26T18:30:36Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/combining-screens-from-different-accounts-to-merge-together/1188791/7 "2021-03-26T18:51:15Z")
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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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/combining-screens-from-different-accounts-to-merge-together/1188791/8 "2024-11-08T13:25:43Z")