# Form components as search is considered as update **URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/form-components-as-search-is-considered-as-update/68484 **Category:** Ask for Help **Created:** [December 7, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/form-components-as-search-is-considered-as-update/68484 "2023-12-07T18:30:34Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager) #### Post date: [December 7, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/form-components-as-search-is-considered-as-update/68484/4 "2023-12-07T19:50:16Z")
Sorry, I don’t have any really good suggestions, but one thing you could do is move the components to an edit form that is opened with a slide in overlay. When a user wants to change the filters they would click a button to open the edit form, make their changes, and submit the form. This wouldn’t eliminate updates but it would reduce them a little bit. I know this is something a lot of us have asked for because we use user specific columns a lot just for navigation, custom forms, filtering, or just general temporary local storage. This is a request that I created a while back that I would love to see happen, but I don’t know if it ever will. > [@Session Variable Column](https://community.glideapps.com/t/session-variable-column/40260): > > I’ve always thought that it’s really useful how user specific columns only store values locally and for the duration of your session while you are not signed in. This allows for those column values to “reset” after you close the app, and the data does not need to be sent and synchronized with glide servers. However, once you sign in, then those values are sent to, and stored, on Glide’s servers. I think a new Session column type could be really useful. It would work just like user specific c… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/form-components-as-search-is-considered-as-update/68484)._