# Add a Date Stamp when item is edited or submitted

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-a-date-stamp-when-item-is-edited-or-submitted/1097>\
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**Created:** [October 11, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-a-date-stamp-when-item-is-edited-or-submitted/1097 "2019-10-11T15:30:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-a-date-stamp-when-item-is-edited-or-submitted/1097/12 "2021-04-20T18:29:20Z")

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No, a checkbox will not call an action so you would have to use something that does allows for actions to be called. The examples in my post below allow for similar functionality to checking and unchecking a box, but without an actual checkbox. It could be simplified with a custom action to set a boolean column to true or false depending on the boolean’s current value.

> [@Reset Multiple Rows At Once](https://community.glideapps.com/t/reset-multiple-rows-at-once/22211):
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> There have been several requests for people to find a way to clear a value in multiple rows. I was thinking about that and came up with a quick example of a way to handle that. Instead of trying to clear a value in an entire column, I realized we could just change one value on a parent column, load it as a single value in our sheet and then compare that parent value to a column that we set or unset for each row. It’s not about clearing an entire column, it’s about making a value in each row n…

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