As you build your app and iterate quickly, you often create columns in order to try something, only to later discover there’s a better way. Eventually your Sheets and Tables are full of columns not being used at all, and likely never will be. I’d like to propose a way for columns to be quickly iden…

You’ve seen this, yeah? [image] new Feature: "Find all uses" firefirefirefire I’m up working on my app for my festival this weekend and look what I find. Nothing but music to my ears. Looking forward to using this! [image]

I didn’t see this!!! I did a search trying to find any other threads for a feature like this, but came up with nothing. This is making me cry with joy. Would be great if there was a way to quickly see without searching that the column isn’t being used. Even better if you didn’t actually have to cli…

yeah, it’s a game changer, that’s for sure. Although not sure that it’s 100% reliable just yet, so I’ve been exercising a little bit of caution with it.

I think we can move this one to the “Help & How-to” category :wink:

For sure. especially since folks should probably know that this feature is NOT working perfectly as of the date of this reply. An array column set shows as not being used even if the individual columns in the array are being used. And in some cases Template columns aren’t registered being used when …

even after yesterday’s update?

Well as of two seconds ago, the Emoji array column is telling me that it isn’t being used anywhere, but if I change the names of those columns in GSheets so they aren’t registered as a single array column, and look at each individually they are all being used. I don’t know about some of those templa…

I’d be careful. I’m still finding broken stuff all over my app today because I got too excited about that feature.

I went through my app and didn’t notice any problem in this regard. I had reported issues with the ifThen, lookup and rollup columns last week but everything was fixed yesterday and it works fine for me. can you make a report or a little video to @Mark about the bug, so that he fixes.

@John_Cabrera Could you give me a support link and tell me which column Glide is not reporting as being used, but which is actually used, and tell me where?

Cleaning up your unused columns

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Cleaning up your unused columns

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