# Conditional visibility of components usage question **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [November 14, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/conditional-visibility-of-components-usage-question/1993 "2019-11-14T19:28:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**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:** [November 15, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/conditional-visibility-of-components-usage-question/1993/4 "2019-11-15T15:12:47Z")
There are lots of things that this could be used for, but thinking back to a previous thread, I had created a small example to show or hide an image button based on the value in a different column. That example was intended to hide a button once a user had a count of 50 it more in a column…so they couldn’t submit not than 50 times for example. Another example would be to only show a button to allow someone to proceed if they agreed to terms and conditions. It’s probably one of those features that won’t make much sense until you run into a situation where you actually need it. > [@Conditional button based on user](https://community.glideapps.com/t/conditional-button-based-on-user/1612/10): > > I threw together an example to Show/Hide an image button in [https://concepts.glideapp.io/](https://concepts.glideapp.io/) . It’s working using formulas in the sheet, but I couldn’t get it to work using the IF-THEN-ELSE column in the Data tab. See if it would work for your situation. I tried using the new IF-THEN-ELSE column to get the column value to equal the image URL, It works, but I still get an empty image placeholder that is clickable. I’m guessing Glide is still placing some sort of value in the virtual column that … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/conditional-visibility-of-components-usage-question/1993)._