What are app & stored data sources?

[kartik14]

Hi all, I noticed a new option during creating a new local table source for my DVL (snap-to-place project) -

I’ve never noticed this before, but the Thunkable docs seem to be updated with this (Data Sources - Thunkable Docs - Step #7) :

But I still don’t understand what they actually do - if my data source is “App” one, will it reset to blank table if app is closed? and persist/store data until deleted from app if it is “Stored”? If someone has any idea please explain to me… Thanks!

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BTW, anyone experiencing outage in dvl layout creation? I’m unable to add a row/column as a list data viewer layout - it just shows the loading icon for 1-2sec and then does nothing. Is the platform under maintenance / updation currently?

[jared]

first glance would make me think they’re speeding up the interaction time with local tables. Related to your other post about how they are slow, perhaps this is a v1 to scoot around that limitation?

[kartik14]

@matt_conroy Can you please shed some light & give us curious souls a rough idea on what this actually is?

[matt_conroy]

@kartik14 Sure! The tl;dr on this is that when adding local Data Source, a user can now add it as an app data source (resets when user closes/re-opens the app) or stored data source (persistent, does not reset when the user closes/re-opens the app).

Should be an update to our docs coming on this soon!