# Add New Option for View only of a Rating

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-new-option-for-view-only-of-a-rating/86493>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [February 25, 2026, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-new-option-for-view-only-of-a-rating/86493 "2026-02-25T15:03:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Jim\_Mason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jim_mason/32/89156_2.png) [@Jim\_Mason](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jim_Mason)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-new-option-for-view-only-of-a-rating/86493/1 "2026-02-25T15:03:28Z")

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Rating Component : Add an Option of “View Only” to allow a rating value to be seen but not changed.

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-new-option-for-view-only-of-a-rating/86493/2 "2026-02-25T16:14:29Z")

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If you create a template column or math column (or any computed column that duplicates that rating value), then you can point the rating component to that column and the user won’t be able to change it because computed columns don’t store values.

Other alternatives are to build you own rating component with the Custom AI component, or a bit of html and a rich text component, or an IF column or javascript column to generate the ratings with emoji.

Several ways to recreate something like that, but the easiest would be my first suggestion to use a computed column.

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**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-new-option-for-view-only-of-a-rating/86493/3 "2026-02-25T18:45:26Z")

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You can also give the rating component a CSS class (`"static"` in the example below) on the component and set `pointer-events` to `none`.

Like this:  
 ![CleanShot 2026-02-25 at 13.50.56](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/e/0/e0ac2b01d0d801d0cf1eaca71ecba3b3ae1c3619.gif)

```auto
.static button {
pointer-events: none !important;
}
```

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**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-new-option-for-view-only-of-a-rating/86493/4 "2026-02-25T18:45:48Z")

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> [@Jeff\_Hager](#):
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> If you create a template column or math column (or any computed column that duplicates that rating value), then you can point the rating component to that column and the user won’t be able to change it because computed columns don’t store values.

Never tried this! Just tried…it lets you select the computed column but it doesn’t display the value in stars.

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-new-option-for-view-only-of-a-rating/86493/5 "2026-02-25T19:48:35Z")

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Ah, good to know. I guess I just assumed it would work since you could select the column. I never fully tested it.

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**Author:** ![Jim\_Mason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jim_mason/32/89156_2.png) [@Jim\_Mason](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jim_Mason)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2026, 11:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-new-option-for-view-only-of-a-rating/86493/6 "2026-03-14T11:33:06Z")

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Thank you for the advice Robert , unfortunately I know absolutely nothing about Custom CSS. I will try it though. 👍

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**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2026, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/add-new-option-for-view-only-of-a-rating/86493/7 "2026-03-14T13:41:44Z")

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Of try the custom AI component as Jeff suggestion.