# Deep link visible to users without an account - does not work

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**Created:** [June 7, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/deep-link-visible-to-users-without-an-account-does-not-work/82309 "2025-06-07T19:13:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/deep-link-visible-to-users-without-an-account-does-not-work/82309/12 "2025-06-08T13:10:18Z")

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Rather than removing the back button (which personally I think is a bad idea), I think a better approach would be to set it up in such a way that there is nothing to go back to.

You could do this as follows:

- Create a Single Row table, and make this the source of a tab that is the only tab visible to non-registered users.
- Add a “Get Part of URL” column. Configure it to take the `id` parameter from the Link to the Current screen.
- Publish your App, open it as a non-registered user, and capture the URL of the screen that sits on your single row table.
- Now construct a URL, appending an `id` parameter on the end, where `id` is the RowID of the row in the other table that you want to expose. So you should wind up with something that looks like the following: `https://my.glide.page/dl/dcc150?id=SPg1jOB8QVmnvqsU0L1P5w` (This is the URL pattern that you will give to non-registered users).
- In the single row table, create a single relation column that matches the extracted RowID with the RowID in the other table (where your content is).
- Add a number of lookup columns that fetch the values you need via the single relation
- Display these on the screen.

Using the above approach, you should find that there will be no back button displayed on mobile, because it is a top level screen, and hence there is nothing to go back to.

I have tested this solution, and it works as described. Please note however, that it will _only_ work in the published App. It will _not_ work in the builder.

Also note that the caveat that Jeff Hager pointed out about data security still applies.

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