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Remix

Create an independent app from an existing app.

Remix creates a new app from an existing one and adapts it to your instructions.

The new app is fully independent. Later changes to either app do not affect the other.

Remix an app

On the Apps list, hover an app card and choose the remix icon.

  1. Choose the target workspace

    You can remix into the current workspace or another workspace you belong to, which is how you move a working pattern between teams.

  2. Name the new app

    Give it a name that describes its new purpose.

  3. Describe the changes

    State what should change, including records, fields, statuses, and audience.

  4. Choose Remix and wait

    The new app appears and Appaca prepares it.

What comes across

  • Data table structure created by the source app, without records
  • Functions and Pages, adapted to your instructions
  • Configuration keys are created, but with empty values.
  • A starting chat containing your instructions, so the app’s history explains where it came from.

What does not come across

  • Records. The remix gets the table structure, not the data. A remixed app starts empty, which is almost always what you want when the purpose has changed.
  • Configuration values. Keys are created empty. Credentials never travel with a copy, so fill them in before testing an integration.
  • Schedulers. A remixed app has none, even if the original was fully automated. Recreate the ones you need.
  • Knowledge and connector assignments. Grant these again on the new app.
  • Tables the source app only had access to. Only tables the source app owns are recreated. A table the original app reached through an @ mention is not brought across, and if the remix is in the same workspace it is not connected either.

Remix compared with sharing

These solve different problems.

Use remix when you want your own app based on the shape of an existing one, and you intend to change it.

Use a Share link when other people should use your app as it is. A share link can permit cloning, which lets a recipient take their own copy, and that copy is independent in the same way a remix is.

Who can remix

Remixing creates an app, so it is available to workspace owners and admins. Members do not see the option. You also need to belong to the workspace you are remixing into.

Sharing Let other people use or clone an app. App configurations Fill in the values a remixed app needs. Schedulers Recreate the automation a remix does not carry.