I’m sure it is something obvious and I just can’t see it.
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I think it doesn’t like the caps. Try all lower case.
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Now why didn’t I think of that? 
Thanks again Jeff. You are an invaluable resource for the community.
I’ll just take a minute to share my story. I started this project 23 days ago (July 27 to be exact). I had no previous experience with Glide and it was recommended to me by ChatGPT 4o. My goal was to see if I could develop a point of sale system for a community cafe in record time (I have a programming background but still, something like this would take me months to develop). So I did it as a vibe coding project letting ChatGPT do most of the coding and configuring while I “steered” the ship so to speak and made critical decisions. 23 days later I have a functional MVP, polished, that handles the front-of-house order taking, and the kitchen display for the chefs and is pretty easy to use and understand. Our volunteers are not tech savvy sorts so we will see when I deploy to the field but I think the learning curve is going to be very shallow. I am impressed with what can be accomplished in such a short period of time by combining AI with something like Glide. Very impressed. Also, while Glide’s UI has been a source of frustration at times (likely an understatement) in the end it has been very solid and reliable which is a really important factor to consider. It does not hang. Now that I’ve published and am doing stuff through the central server I do notice some delay and lag in updating but nothing that would be a deal breaker.
Thanks for all of your help during the past 23 days, it made a difference.
PS I am still not done. We can deploy to the field for testing and tweak as necessary, and then there is all the backend reporting that still needs to be developed before she finally gets signed off as done.
Mark
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Yeah, I didn’t think case would matter either. Maybe the regex check is only looking for lower case. At the very least, it would be nice if the warning specified to use lowercase.
I’m also a software engineer by day, so I completely understand the speed efficiency of developing something with Glide. I agree that it does have it’s frustrations and limitations that in some cases would be a lot easier with code, but it is still very powerful in what you can build and the speed of building it.
I discovered Glide when I was looking for a solution to help my GF keep track of some things. What hooked me was that it builds simple screens and flow with nothing more than some basic data. For example, I had a simple spreadsheet from a competing nocode website that I plugged into Glide. It built a large portion of the app just from that existing data, which gave me a good starting point. Kind of sucks you in right from the start.
I still like to get my hands inside of any code when I can, but Glide as well as AI really make building something from scratch a more enjoyable process.
Glad you are finding success!
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