Move from Grist
From Grist to Artavolo, step by step
Export from Grist, bring the files in, and see what came over before anyone switches. It is read in your browser, and nothing in Grist changes.
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Export from Grist
You get: Excel (.xlsx), the whole document.
- Open the document, then Share, then Download, then Export XLSX.
- Every table is a sheet of the file: bring it in as it is.
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Bring the files in
- In Artavolo, open Import on the home page and choose Excel (opens it for you).
- Pick or drop the files, all at once: each becomes a table, linked where one names the other’s records.
- The tables and their fields are shown with their types, and what was found (links, lookups, groups). Untick a table to leave it out, and make the base.
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Read the report
It lists the tables and records made, the formulas and lookups checked against Grist’s own results record by record, and what is different, so nothing is dropped without a word. Keep Grist until the team works here.
What comes over
Your data, typed and linked
- Every table, a sheet each
- References between tables, from the referenced rows' names
- Choices, dates, numbers
What you rebuild
Named in the report, every one
- Python formulas (as field formulas; most spreadsheet functions match)
- Access rules (as row rules and permissions)
Rather we did it? We move a base or a whole workspace for a fixed price, rebuild what the export leaves out, and check it with you. Ask for a quote.
Questions
Moving from Grist
Yes: in the Excel export a reference shows the referenced row's name, and the import links them again.
In our cloud in Germany, or on your own server.
Formulas use spreadsheet functions ({Price} * {Qty}, IF, SUM...). Python formulas are rewritten; in a migration package we do it.
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