How to find where a slice is used

[Thagu]

Hi all

I have several slices of a table that are used in various views. Now, in order not to crash a certain view by e.g. deleting a column in a slice, how can I figure out where a slice is all used?

So far in the Appsheet documentation the Slice is not part of the View documentation (but only view name, created by, view type, action type, position, view configuration, Visible?, Icon, Menu order), which was quite surprising...

is there any other possibility? Or could it be added to the normal appsheet app documentation?

[Suvrutt_Gurjar]

Please take a look at the documentation option under Settings.> Information --> App Documentation

You will get documentation on slices like below

[Thagu]

Hi Suvrutt

thank you for your post! I know about that documentation feature and also that there you can find the definition of a slice. What I am missing is the information, in which views a slice is used. As you can see also on your printscreens, there is nowhere any information about the connections between slices (or tables) and views. I'd expect in the views definition some information about the used datasource... Here I can't find this:

Regards,

Guido

[Suvrutt_Gurjar]

Thank you. Yes, got your point.

I believe  you may want to raise a feature request to include "slice/table name" on which the view is based. It will certainly be a good cross reference.

[Thagu]

Thanks again for the fast reply. I've opened such a request:

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Feature-Ideas/Add-a-slice-table-name-reference-in-the-View-d...

[enginerd]

Settings -> Data -> Relationships -> Grid View. 

Slices show for me as diamonds. Their source points to them, and if they are used in a view, they have an arrow pointing to that view.

Unused slices in my app appear as dead ends, but it's a relatively simple app.

Does this view of the relationships meet your needs?

[Thagu]

Hi enginerd

thx for the hint, but: for a simple app with 2-3 tables and some views it possibly helps, but with my app, where I have >10 tables and probably 50 slices and the same amount of views it's not really usable. And I can't even find all of my views and slices on it. So I haven't understood yet what is shown and what not. Additionally, searching for an expression is also not working (cntrl-F).

[Steve]

Here:

[Thagu]

Thank you Steve, but as already stated above that information is not available there (unless Google has changed its content). Nevertheless, we'll most probably design a html parsing tool which will gather that information out of that documentation file. Stay posted...