# 🆕 Feature: "Find all uses" 🔥🔥🔥🔥

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103>\
**Category:** Community Resources\
**Created:** [June 18, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103 "2021-06-18T02:39:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Turrell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mark_turrell/32/26605_2.png) [@Mark\_Turrell](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mark_Turrell)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/21 "2021-06-18T20:22:48Z")

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I must say it’s beginning to become a joy doing stuff 🙂

Here’s the latest iteration of my telemedicine app - a call center and a user app, built on glide, glide tables, Google sheets, Google script, integromat, zapier, etc / and help from great people in the community.

And I await useful future goodies too 🎁 - a lot of progress really quickly, quite stunning really 🌟

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**Author:** ![Yasin\_Hassanien](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/yasin_hassanien/32/9042_2.png) [@Yasin\_Hassanien](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Yasin_Hassanien)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 7:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/22 "2021-06-20T07:39:40Z")

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@Mark_Turrell What’s the video call tool that you are using?

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Turrell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mark_turrell/32/26605_2.png) [@Mark\_Turrell](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mark_Turrell)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 7:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/23 "2021-06-20T07:43:39Z")

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Jitsi - there is a public version and then I spend money with a contractor for a custom version hosted on AWS 🙂

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Turrell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mark_turrell/32/26605_2.png) [@Mark\_Turrell](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mark_Turrell)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/24 "2021-06-20T14:22:39Z")

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Mark happy. (this) Mark able to debug by looking for places actions get set.

No, (this) Mark is more than happy. Giggling with excitement! I can actually bug fix a current problem instantly! Thanks @Mark and @Jason and the rest of the Glide team!

 ![Screenshot 2021-06-20 at 16.20.54](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/f/5/f5299270893d732eb83f3f708e451fdad1123bad.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Turrell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mark_turrell/32/26605_2.png) [@Mark\_Turrell](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mark_Turrell)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 11:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/25 "2021-06-26T11:11:27Z")

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I have found a bug…

The find all uses correctly picked up where it is used…  
BUT in an action it does not highlight in blurry blue all the places where it is used

In this case, it picked up the first set column action … but not the second or any other.

 ![Screenshot 2021-06-26 at 13.09.47](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/8/a/8a149ef6860b6fc9703b542595983bb0224a24c3.jpeg)

another missing use case:

- I have a column flow/ lk-waiting to upload
- this is a computed column - a lookup - in my user Profile table (CollectUser)

I would expect the Find all Uses to INCLUDE where the lookup comes from (or single value, if it were an sv-, etc)

But it is missing this use of the column.

This would greatly help bug fixing - and might be a small thing - thanks @Mark

 ![Screenshot 2021-06-27 at 17.32.59](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/8/c/8c57daa754aff49386499064b4db62a7c9924f9f.png)

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**Author:** ![Mark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mark/32/125_2.png) [@Mark](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mark)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/26 "2021-06-27T15:43:33Z")

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> [@Mark\_Turrell](#):
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> BUT in an action it does not highlight in blurry blue all the places where it is used

This will be fixed on Friday.

> [@Mark\_Turrell](#):
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> I would expect the Find all Uses to INCLUDE where the lookup comes from (or single value, if it were an sv-, etc)

I don’t understand this case, or can’t reproduce it. When I search for the uses of a column that’s being looked up, the Lookup column is found. Can you give me a support link and tell me which column you’re finding uses for, and which column you expect to be in the search results for that?

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Turrell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mark_turrell/32/26605_2.png) [@Mark\_Turrell](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mark_Turrell)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/27 "2021-06-27T15:56:22Z")

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Sent - with app url and the loom to demonstrate the problem 🙂

And… I see the logical issue…  
I am trying to find out where this computed lookup column comes FROM

- but that means it is not IN or USED IN the other table

So I guess I am asking for ‘expected functionality’ - if it is a lookup, I would like to see where it is coming from.

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**Author:** ![christoph](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/christoph/32/22794_2.png) [@christoph](https://community.glideapps.com/u/christoph)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 7:23am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/28 "2021-08-28T07:23:06Z")

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Hey, this feature is so useful and has saved me hours, thanks Team.  
For components the search result shows the screen the component is sitting on,  
For Actions only the name is shown → sometime it takes hours to find the location if you have too simple names such as Copy of Copy of Back

Could you please also show the screen for Actions

![find all](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/d/4/d473492f50330c7b280d8c3ffe276ca82d5ee4a5.png)

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**Author:** ![SantiagoPerez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/santiagoperez/32/16807_2.png) [@SantiagoPerez](https://community.glideapps.com/u/SantiagoPerez)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/29 "2021-08-28T12:55:59Z")

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@christoph

What happens when you click on the arrow inside the circle on the right?

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**Author:** ![christoph](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/christoph/32/22794_2.png) [@christoph](https://community.glideapps.com/u/christoph)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/30 "2021-08-28T13:44:29Z")

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@SantiagoPerez,  
sure you get to the Action but if you click Cancel or Save you don’t get to the Screen on which the Action is, but to the Screen which you viewed before clicking on the arrow.  
And if you have many similar Actions, you still don’t know what Screen is it about…

![Copy of Back](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/6/e/6e36594cd32b27dc60a94c9234232b2f37f92f92.png)

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**Author:** ![SantiagoPerez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/santiagoperez/32/16807_2.png) [@SantiagoPerez](https://community.glideapps.com/u/SantiagoPerez)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/31 "2021-08-28T16:07:20Z")

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I understand your point now.

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**Author:** ![ChaseFlorell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/chaseflorell/32/30932_2.png) [@ChaseFlorell](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ChaseFlorell)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/32 "2021-08-28T16:25:59Z")

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I just started using glide this week and started using this feature right away… I had no idea it was new, it’s so fundamental to building complex things.

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**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 11:25am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/feature-find-all-uses/28103/33 "2023-10-05T11:25:56Z")

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> [@david](#):
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> Maybe we could show “Unused” in the column menu when it’s unused in your app, rather than “Find all uses”, when the column is not used.

Vote here:

> [@"Find non used"](https://community.glideapps.com/t/find-non-used/31159):
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> Hi, in big apps, we may have columns that finally we haven’t used but forgot to delete. → Would be nice to be able to launch a search on all columns (and components) which result is empty on “Find All Uses”.

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