Exclude columns from being displayed

Hi,

Glide newbie here.

I have linked a table to a screen and used a List to display the data. My questions are -

  1. Is it possible to display more than 4 pieces of data in the list?

  2. When I click on an item in the list, I go to details screen which shows all of the data from the table. This includes data that I don’t want to be displayed to the user such as unique record id, created_at, company_id, etc. How do I go about choosing what fields I want displayed and can I make any of these field visible depending on the role of the user?

  3. I added a field to the table after I created the screen but the data is not showing up. How can I get the screen to refresh from the table?

  1. Is it possible to change the format of dates from MM-DD-YYYY to DD-MMM-YYYY or even from unix time to DD-MMM-YYYY?

Thanks
Steve

You could use template columns or or directly merge multiple column values together directly in the component configuration.

The other option is a custom collection, which is a lot more flexible as far as how many pieces of information can be displayed because you can place multiple components in a custom collection container.

Remove the components you don’t want. Screens are customizable.

Add a component. Screens are customizable.

Date formats are tricky. Usually they follow the region/locale settings of your device so it might be MDY for me but DMY for you because your device says dates should look that way. The alternative is maybe the format date column, but that takes some playing around to understand how it works.

Hello there, ideas if you’re still stuck:

  1. Browse Glide Docs quickly to have a quick idea of how to build on Glide.
  2. Browse Glide University quickly, same idea
  3. In your current build, click all over the place and try (you might want to duplicate your project first as a backup). You won’t break anything. In the layout editor, the basic idea is that you select a screen or component on the left side, configure it on the right side, and preview the result in the middle.