How to share entity data between solutions

Introduction

Would you like to share data between projects? Then share a persistent EntityDataStore between projects.

This guide refers to two Packhunt solutions:

1. “Source” project: The project that created the persistent EntityDataStore initially. See the example configuration below:

  my-source-entity-data-store:
    kind: EntityDataStore
    persistToStore: my-source-store-name
    properties:
      property-1:
        type: Number

2. “Current” project: The project that is using the EntityDataStore created in the source project, which you’ll edit following the steps below.

Prerequisites

• You have a working source project containing a persistent EntityDataStore .
• You have a working current project, but it’s not yet using the entities from the source project.
• To access an EntityDataStore in another project, you (and any other users) need at least “can use” permission to both projects.
  

1. Add an entity datastore to the current project

To access data in the entity datastore in the source project, configure an EntityDataStore in your current project.

• Add an entity datastore with kind: EntityDataStore.
• Define the properties of your entity datastore.

❗The properties of the source and current EntityDataStores should be the same.

The configuration should look similar to the example below:

my-entity-data-store:
    kind: EntityDataStore
    properties:
      property-1:
        type: Number

2. Define the store name

• Define the store name with the source store name using the persistToStore property.

The configuration should look similar to the example below:

  my-entity-data-store:
      kind: EntityDataStore
      persistToStore: my-source-store-name
      properties: ...

3. Define the project

• Specify the name of the project containing the entity datastore with the persistToProject property.

The configuration should look similar to the example below:

my-entity-data-store:
    kind: EntityDataStore
    persistToStore: my-source-store-name
    persistToProject: my-source-solution
    properties: ...

💡 You can use the entities in the Model, ControlPanel and EntityTable as usual by subscribing these blocks to the shared EntityDataStore.

Configuration

See the entity data store configuration docs.