# Gather data from one tab (data table within Glide) to another

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**Created:** [September 9, 2023, 9:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/gather-data-from-one-tab-data-table-within-glide-to-another/65942 "2023-09-09T09:49:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 11:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/gather-data-from-one-tab-data-table-within-glide-to-another/65942/2 "2023-09-09T11:00:46Z")

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Hello Arnaud, welcome to Glide’s community forum.

A few random ideas:

1. Are you sure you need to copy data from one table from another? If possible I would consider other options first.

2. **Table architecture**. Imagine I’m creating a Things tab on which I will display a collection of Things. In the Data Editor, I create a table called Things Tab and don’t touch it (I might touch it at the outset). I create a second table called Things Collection where I will store data related to the Things collection. Each of my tabs have their own table, each of my collections have their own table, and I keep these tables strictly separate.

3. **One-off methods to copy data.** You can right-click on any table and duplicate it. You can right-click on any table and do a data import. You can select cells in one table and copy-paste them into another. Below the Users table, you can import a file.

4. As long as the style of a tab is custom, any collection, and therefore any table, can live on any tab via a collection component.

5. **Fetching data from another table.** You can leverage the Single Value column. In the destination table (the table you are copying the data to):

- Create a dynamic RowIndex column: RowID column, lookup of RowID column, find element index of RowID column.
- Create a Single Value column to pull in a column from the origin table: Single Value column, from start, RowIndex, column from the original table.
- Repeat with Single Value columns to fetch additional columns.

I hope this helps.

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