# Comment Names
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [March 16, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333 "2021-03-16T06:55:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/1 "2021-03-16T06:55:01Z")
Hi,
I have comments set up, but it uses the same name for both even though I have two different names for each user. There are two different users commenting, but they have the same name, as you can see here:
Also, can comments be deleted by the user who wrote them?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 7:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/2 "2021-03-16T07:39:01Z")
I believe that comments just uses the name from the User Profiles table.
So if you have two users called “Jen”, then that’s all you’ll see.
You probably need to ask your users to enter their full name in their profile.
As far as I’m aware, the only way to delete comments is via the builder. So no, users cannot delete their own comments.
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### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/3 "2021-03-16T12:06:51Z")
That’s the thing, there is no name attached there. just email. I thought it was also taking from the names fro the master sheet.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/4 "2021-03-16T12:09:54Z")
Okay, that’s odd.
Are the comments being added via the app?
How do they appear in your `App: Comments` sheet?
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### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/5 "2021-03-16T12:13:05Z")
Yes, maybe its taking it from my email profile? Funny it can go that specific, especially because one isnt a gmail email. That’s the only place that has my name entered before hand, other than the master sheet.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/6 "2021-03-16T12:17:05Z")
If you look in the `App: Comments` sheet, it should be immediately obvious.
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### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/7 "2021-03-16T12:18:20Z")
Yes the names are there, but I don’t know where Glide is getting them from.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/8 "2021-03-16T12:23:08Z")
There should also be an email address in that sheet.
Do all 3 comments appear with the same email address?
And does that email address correspond to a row in your User Profiles sheet?
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### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/9 "2021-03-16T12:28:12Z")
There are two different emails used in the comments, it’s shown that way in the comments sheet as well. Both emails are in the user profiles sheet, but there is no names in the name column. It’s blank.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/10 "2021-03-16T12:31:31Z")
mmm okay, I can’t explain that. It might be some sort of funky default behaviour that happens when there is no name. I’d need to do some testing to try and figure it out.
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### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/11 "2021-03-16T12:32:35Z")
Would there be an alternative to comments? I would like for users to have the ability to delete their comments as well. I am using comments for a chat function. The chat is initiated with a form and then continues with the comments.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/12 "2021-03-16T12:34:26Z")
I guess the alternative would be to either build your own comments functionality, or look at one of the chat templates that others have shared.
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### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/13 "2021-03-17T01:12:34Z")
Ok will take look.
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### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 8:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/14 "2021-03-19T08:20:35Z")
Hi Darren, do you know where the avatars come from?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 8:28am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/15 "2021-03-19T08:28:18Z")
In a comments component?
Based on what I see in my own apps, it appears:
- If the user has a profile pic set, then that is used
- If no profile pic, then it uses the first letter of their name
- If no name, then my guess is it might be blank (all of my users have names, so I’ve never seen that)
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### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/16 "2021-03-19T08:30:14Z")
Yes, Im seeing that now, can a lookup be used for the avatar and name in user profiles? I added one but its not showing up as an option.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 8:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/17 "2021-03-19T08:33:29Z")
No, I don’t think so.
You need to specify those columns when you set up User Profiles, and as far as I know they cannot be computed columns.
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### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 8:34am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/18 "2021-03-19T08:34:18Z")
Got it. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Jen\_NYCP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jen_NYCP)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 8:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/19 "2021-03-19T08:38:13Z")
What if I made a Goolge Sheet formula to pull in that info? Would it pick up on that?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 8:41am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/comment-names/24333/20 "2021-03-19T08:41:35Z")
um, can you explain your situation a little more?
I guess my immediate question is - why isn’t this data already in your User Profiles sheet?
If you’re wanting to pull it from another table, then something seems to be fundamentally wrong with your setup.
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