# Computed column not visible to user when using row owner
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/computed-column-not-visible-to-user-when-using-row-owner/66990
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**Tags:** row-owners
**Created:** [October 15, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/computed-column-not-visible-to-user-when-using-row-owner/66990 "2023-10-15T17:25:18Z")
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### Author:  [@dlr](https://community.glideapps.com/u/dlr)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/computed-column-not-visible-to-user-when-using-row-owner/66990/1 "2023-10-15T17:25:18Z")
Hi there
I have a table called “articles” where I’m using “row owner” with user’s email. So far so good.
I recently performed a bit of refactoring and started using statuses from another table, in order to have something smarter than just text. See screenshot below.
The problem is that now users don’t see the status at all - if I remove row owner, they do.
Any idea why and how to solve this?
This is the new table to manage statuses
This is where I’m using them - they are not visible to normal users:
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### Author:  [@dlr](https://community.glideapps.com/u/dlr)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/computed-column-not-visible-to-user-when-using-row-owner/66990/2 "2023-10-15T17:46:17Z")
Actually I figured something out. Turn out the column is user-specific. I didn’t select that. For a reason I can’t remove the user specific setting, nor create non-user specific columns. It’s selected by default and greyed out.
Anybody encountered that issue?
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/computed-column-not-visible-to-user-when-using-row-owner/66990/3 "2023-10-15T18:08:41Z")
You can only set a column as user specific when it’s created. Due to the differences in how user specific and non user specific columns work, you cannot change them after they have been created. You will need to recreate the column.
> [@dlr](#):
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> The problem is that now users don’t see the status at all - if I remove row owner, they do.
I’m not sure I follow how a user specific column applies to your issue with row owners. They are different things and work differently. As for row owners, if a user does not have ownership of a row, then they will not have any kind of access to unowned data. It doesn’t matter how many relations/lookups you use. If that data is not owned, then it’s not even sent to the end user’s device for the relation/lookup to look at.
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### Author:  [@dlr](https://community.glideapps.com/u/dlr)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/computed-column-not-visible-to-user-when-using-row-owner/66990/4 "2023-10-15T18:19:47Z")
Thanks Jeff!
You are right, row owner and user specific should not have anything to do with one another.
About your solution: my problem is that I can NOT create non-user specific columns at all. I have deleted all user-specific columns, but still not way to add a non-user-specific column. Is it because I am using an Airtable table?
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/computed-column-not-visible-to-user-when-using-row-owner/66990/5 "2023-10-15T18:32:19Z")
I don’t know much about Airtable, and it’s been a bit flaky lately. I assume you are adding a column through the Glide data editor? You may need to create the column through Airtable. That’s not the normal way to do it, but for now that may be your only option.