# Display data in Data grid or table display without editable

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-data-in-data-grid-or-table-display-without-editable/81210>\
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**Created:** [April 7, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-data-in-data-grid-or-table-display-without-editable/81210 "2025-04-07T02:43:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![paiboolk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/paiboolk/32/86903_2.png) [@paiboolk](https://community.glideapps.com/u/paiboolk)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-data-in-data-grid-or-table-display-without-editable/81210/1 "2025-04-07T02:43:36Z")

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Dear all,  
I add Data Grid or even Table to the screen but don’t want user to edit any data in that display. Is it possible to disable it?  
I tried to use Fields also. But it didn’t work for filtered data.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-data-in-data-grid-or-table-display-without-editable/81210/2 "2025-04-07T23:23:12Z")

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What “edit” function are you mentioning here? Is it the edit screen, or the ability to edit right in the cell for Data Grid?

In both of those cases, they can be disabled.

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**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 10:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-data-in-data-grid-or-table-display-without-editable/81210/3 "2025-04-08T10:33:22Z")

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**Data grid**  
A mini “Data editor” inside the frontend of your application that allows the users to edit the data by writing inside cells of the mini data editor directly. Other actions are possible (title, collection item), but the ability of editing inside a cell directly is the main feature of the data grid.

**Table collection**  
Display a collection like any other collection (card, list) but it so happens the data is presented in table format. You can then do the usual actions. And it so happens that the table component has a ton of neat configuration possbilities at the column level (and the data grid shares some of these).

Though the two collections look similar, the use cases are different.