Apologies in advance for the lengthy post - providing as much detail as I can in order to try and help you to help me, without too much back and forth :slight_smile: Ok, so I’ve been looking over the Thunkable doco, doing a bit of Googlefu, etc, but am having trouble deciding on what would be the m…

The answer to both how to efficiently organize the data and speed up your app are to use Firebase and cloud variables instead of Google Sheets. With one set of blocks, you can download your entire database locally and then manipulate it as needed. It’s much faster. But if you’ve never used Firebase …

Alrighty, thanks - time for some more reading/YouTubing :wink: (Have had a quick look at Firebase… it’s certainly not a quick and easy setup. Never worked with a NoSQL DB before - it’s an interesting concept, being able to create records with different types/fields within the same “table”… and havi…

Seeing as you seem fairly familiar with FireBase - a quick follow-up question. Do you know if the issue with connections for DBs based in EU instead of the US also flow over to a DB hosted in AU? I’ve tried every combination I can think of, and that I can find reference to in the doco, etc… but ever…

[image] grinkingr3yr6z: Do you know if the issue with connections for DBs based in EU instead of the US also flow over to a DB hosted in AU? I don’t, sorry. [image] grinkingr3yr6z: Any thoughts on what might be going wrong here? I’ve always used https:// projectId .firebaseio.com as m…

THANK you! That was the missing piece, from your screenshots. I was working with a Firestore DB, rather than a Realtime one. Moving over to the realtime one, my reads/writes are now working. Thank you both for your inputs :slight_smile:

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ioannis September 11, 2024, 9:13pm 6

Hello @grinkingr3yr6z
To connect your Firebase, you need to set the Firebase API Key and Database URL on the project settings

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