# Button to empty a column

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/button-to-empty-a-column/68117>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [November 24, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/button-to-empty-a-column/68117 "2023-11-24T16:37:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![sylvaingeron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@sylvaingeron](https://community.glideapps.com/u/sylvaingeron)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/button-to-empty-a-column/68117/1 "2023-11-24T16:37:44Z")

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I have a table with a Status column (with a check box for 1 or 0). I would like to make a button to reinitialize ALL rows with a Status of 0. How do I do that ?

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/button-to-empty-a-column/68117/2 "2023-11-25T01:35:32Z")

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You would have to be on Business/Enterprise to use a Call API action for that, with a batch call.

Another way, on Pro+, is to pass all rowIDs through webhook to Make, and do a batch call there with the HTTP module.

This is assuming the Status column is a basic column. Won’t work with user-specific columns.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/button-to-empty-a-column/68117/3 "2023-11-25T02:35:28Z")

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> [@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…