# Delay in loading default values, Causing bad user experience

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/delay-in-loading-default-values-causing-bad-user-experience/39419>\
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**Created:** [March 9, 2022, 9:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/delay-in-loading-default-values-causing-bad-user-experience/39419 "2022-03-09T09:53:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 11:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/delay-in-loading-default-values-causing-bad-user-experience/39419/2 "2022-03-09T11:49:34Z")

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As you have noticed, Glide takes a while to sync the Google Sheet values back to the app, especially in this case, where I assume you’re calculating things using a Sheet formula.

I wrote a recommendation for you in your other thread.

> [@Assign default values for the number entry input fields in the glide app](https://community.glideapps.com/t/assign-default-values-for-the-number-entry-input-fields-in-the-glide-app/39421/2):
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> I think you can structure it a bit differently here. I saw your other thread, I assume it’s the entry fields when the user first enter the app. [https://community.glideapps.com/t/delay-in-loading-default-values-causing-bad-user-experience/39419](https://community.glideapps.com/t/delay-in-loading-default-values-causing-bad-user-experience/39419) Then I assume you can do something like this: Show a number entry with a placeholder (not a default value, it’s still empty by default). The placeholder can be dynamic based on your user’s other pieces of data. Let them edit that field as they want, b…

Please try to move as much logic to Glide Tables and Glide calculated columns as possible.

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