# First app. Need help **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [October 5, 2021, 11:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/first-app-need-help/32680 "2021-10-05T11:05:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**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:** [October 5, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/first-app-need-help/32680/4 "2021-10-05T11:34:25Z")
You are doing a rollup along a category. If I understand your use case correctly, your _category_ is a _date_. Have a look at the following post and try with the _relation_ column and _rollup_ column. Once you manage to get the data you need in your Glide Table – I would recommend you use Glide tables here and not a Google Sheet – then you’ll determine which components are best suited to displaying the data. > [@Rollups with categories](https://community.glideapps.com/t/rollups-with-categories/5243/2): > > So I’m looking at your ‘$ Spent by Category’ tab. How are you getting the totals right now? I’m going to make assumptions on how your data is laid out. What I think you need is a relation column in the Categories sheet to link the category name to the category name in the individual Items sheet. This will 1. allow you to create an inline list of all the related items from the items sheet, and 2. create a rollup column that uses the relation column to sum the values of all the individual item… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/first-app-need-help/32680)._