Looking for advice about how to re-purpose some of the contribution custom fields that one group used to house some converted data but that now we would like to use differently (without over-writing the historical data.) Is this even possible?
Contribution custom fields are configured globally, so if you repurpose one field, the historical data in that field may be mislabeled or formatted incorrectly. Historical data won't be overwritten unless you do that on purpose on the database side.
My approach might be to migrate this old data out of the custom fields into local tables or some other appropriate place, and then when you reconfigure the custom fields, you know that all of the data in those fields is labeled correctly.
Thanks, Nick. I don't *need* the other fields just yet but I'm definitely going to look into housing that converted data in a local table so that I can have them back.