# Button Action re-triggered when tab becomes visible

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/button-action-re-triggered-when-tab-becomes-visible/23487>\
**Category:** Report a Bug\
**Created:** [February 26, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/button-action-re-triggered-when-tab-becomes-visible/23487 "2021-02-26T20:46:12Z")\
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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 26, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/button-action-re-triggered-when-tab-becomes-visible/23487/3 "2021-02-26T21:06:31Z")

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Sounds kind of similar to what I’ve experienced with an action on on inline list getting fired when a new row is added.

Mentioned it here with an example app:

> [@23 duplicate entries using "Add Row" action](https://community.glideapps.com/t/23-duplicate-entries-using-add-row-action/22202/18):
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> OK, I think I do see an error in the logic of my app and I would have to agree, that in my case, an action isn’t being triggered remotely, but something still isn’t right. I made a simpler example to show what I’m seeing. If you add a task, you will see in that list description that the ParentID-Selected column gets populated when the task is added to the list. The only time that column should ever be altered is when clicking on the task within the list. Somehow, the Add Row action is firing…

That stemmed from one of the apps here:

> [@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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