I have built admin and client apps before. In client app the user is the row owner. In the admin app there is no row owner. This allows admins to view and edit any data because the row owner isn’t preventing the admin’s access to the data. Is there a way to achieve the same thing in a single app? …

@blairrorani - the below might help. It provides some examples and explains how they work. [image] Row owners and roles in the same time? Ask for Help No, the users being managed wouldn’t have any role at all. They would just have their own email address as an owner row, …

You can use a roles setup to achieve the same thing inside an app. [image] Roles | Glide Docs Define roles for your users and build different experiences and permissions.

Thanks, yes I’m familiar with that functionality. How do row owner settings affect that though? If I log in as admin, won’t I just see my own data, and not data from all the users (that I want to see)?

You can have both row owners and roles setup in tandem. Say you have a table where you store records that should all be visible to admins, but gated to a specific user based on a rowID. You can have a rowID to store the ID of the user who needs to see that record, and another column where you just…

K, obviously I need to try it :slight_smile: So if I log in as admin role I can view data that has a row owner that isn’t me, if I use rowID rather than email?

Yeah, but on the records table, you should set the “Admin” column to row owner as well (you can set multiple columns as row owner).

I know how to set a row owner, just not 100% sure what you’re suggesting. Example: Workouts table. Has a date and a user (logged in user’s email) and a score. As the row owner, this user will only be able to create, view and edit their scores even though all users are recording scores. when adm…

Thanks again Thinh :slight_smile: I believe you’re referring to the same thing as this article (perhaps). Which I browsed and didn’t 100% understand :joy: :cry:

[image] blairrorani: I’m not sure what the “Admin” column will be in my app. The Admin column is simply a column that is set as a Row Owner column and has the word ‘Admin’ in every row (or whatever word matches what you set as the admin Role in the user table).

Do I need a separate admin app?

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Darren_Murphy February 29, 2024, 9:18am 10

@blairrorani - the below might help. It provides some examples and explains how they work.

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Do I need a separate admin app?

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