I just duplicated a table thinking (hoping) that it would duplicate the computed columns. To my surprise, it duplicated the DATA (which I did not expect), but did not duplicate the computed columns. I could have sworn it used to do that… Help?

Hehe, I try not to. :wink: I don’t know if that will work for you though. It will duplicate the computed columns for that new app, but adding an existing table to a project won’t preserve the computed columns. If you’re trying to get a duplicate within the same app, I think you’ll ultimately be …

Well @Glide , it’s nice to know that I was right and the computed columns should have been duplicated also, but they were not, and from the sound of it, I was also right in expecting the duplicated table to be empty.

The bot is wrong and tends to make a lot of things up. It has always been the case that when you duplicate a table, the data will also duplicate, but no the computed columns will not duplicate. It’s never been any different. The only way to get the computed columns to duplicate is to duplicate a …

OK so that’s a clever work around. I’ll duplicate the app and say Duplicate table And then I’ll rename the one I want and add that to my 1st app. I’ll see if that works. Thank you for not making stuff up.

I hate to ask a really stupid question, but I’m curious: what’s the reason for duplicating a table and needing the computed columns and the underlying data in the basic columns being different? The only scenario I can think of is trying out something and not wanting to mess up the original table. A…

The reason is because I need rows that are not affected by row owner. If we could have a feature where if the row owner were blank it would show for everyone that Would be great because then I wouldn’t need two list views et cetera.

[image] nathanaelb: I hate to ask a really stupid question, but I’m curious: what’s the reason for duplicating a table and needing the computed columns and the underlying data in the basic columns being different? One use case where I would like to be able to duplicate or link a table and kee…

[image] Jeff_Hager: I agree. I wish empty row owner cells would be global for everyone. Taking this one step further - I’d love to have the choice. Either/or on a per table basis :slight_smile:

Rethinking this. We would need a setting on the row to ignore row owner, because I do have tables with multiple row owners where one or more is empty. Perhaps ignore if all are empty.

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Jeff_Hager February 5, 2023, 11:32pm 9

I agree. I wish empty row owner cells would be global for everyone.

"global" row owner rather than using "role"

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