All new Exchange data flows through Nexus. If your organization has active subscriptions in Search and Subscribe, the legacy tool, they will not migrate automatically. You will need to recreate them in Nexus to continue receiving new data. Your existing Search and Subscribe subscriptions remain available and continue to give you access to historical data.
Treat migration as an upgrade, not a copy
Many subscriptions built in the legacy tools were more restrictive than they needed to be — filtered by specific candidate names, pinned to specific question text, or split across multiple single-state subscriptions. Recreating them in Nexus is the natural moment to fix all three. The goal isn’t to reproduce your old configuration; it’s to build the configuration you would have built if Nexus had existed when you started.
The Migration Workflow
- Inventory what you have. Go to Search and Subscribe in the left sidebar and review your active subscriptions. For each, note the geography, data type, filters, and any specific question selections.
- Open Nexus. Click “New! Get Data.”
- Set your scope — and consolidate. Select your geography, but if you maintained separate single-state subscriptions covering the same kind of data, combine them. Nexus supports any mix of states, congressional districts, state legislative districts, and counties in one subscription. Set the end date to No End Date so new data delivers automatically.
- Select your data type and choose Subscription.
- Apply your filters — and audit them. Reset to All any filter you don’t have a specific reason to restrict. In particular: if your legacy subscription filtered by Candidate Name, consider whether office-level scoping (Government Level + Office, Candidate Name at All) serves your program better — it captures the generic support scales and unnamed questions that make up much of the relevant data. If it pinned specific question text, consider attribute-level subscribing instead, so future matching questions are included automatically.
- Consolidate with OR stacking. If you maintained separate subscriptions for Candidate support, Issue positions, and Engagement data over the same geography, one OR-stacked subscription replaces all of them.
- Review, name, and activate. Check the credit estimate, give the subscription a name your team will understand at a glance, and click Activate Subscription. It appears immediately on the Data Exports page — use View Details to confirm the parameters.
What happens to your old subscriptions
Search and Subscribe remains accessible for historic data. Nothing is deleted; you simply stop relying on it for new data once your Nexus subscriptions are live. Your DDx contact can help you review your existing subscriptions and plan the migration — a short conversation up front often surfaces consolidation opportunities that save management overhead all cycle.