If you copy bases into which common datasets are integrated or restore them , the connection to the common datasets is lost. Although the data is then available in a normal table, it can no longer be synchronized. You can therefore reimport common datasets back into existing tables and thus enable synchronization with the data there.

Reimport common dataset

  1. Open a base and select the tab of the table into which you want to reimport a common dataset.
  2. Click on the triangular drop-down icon to the right of the table name.
  3. Select the Link to common dataset option.
  4. Select the common dataset to which you want to link the table.
  5. Confirm with Link.

You can tell that the table is linked to the common dataset again by the stack symbol in the table tab.

Icon in front of the name of tables of a common dataset.

  • Entries that are contained in the table but not in the common dataset are deleted from the table.
  • Entries that are contained in both the table and the common dataset are overwritten in the table if changes have been made since the last synchronization.
  • Entries that are not contained in the table but are contained in the common dataset are added to the table.
  • Entries in added columns that are contained in the table but not in the common dataset remain unchanged.