Best practices for data modeling

Use the following data modeling guidelines:

Getting started

• Reuse data types by promoting a built-on data type or copying the assets from a standard Data- class.

• If your data source is unavailable, connect your data types to simulated data in local storage.

Development

• Repurpose data views instead of creating new ones when your system of record changes.

• Update data sources created in App Studio in Dev Studio only when necessary because some changes made in Dev Studio make the rules uneditable in App Studio.

  For more information, see Updating connections and field mappings for a data source.

Maintenance

• Actively remove the data types and fields that you do not use.

• Provide transformations to automate post-import changes to your data.

• Maintain separate environments for development, staging, production, and testing.

• Save import settings as a template to avoid manually mapping fields during future data imports.