How does Glide store a variable? Similar to when Glide asks for a PIN.
Thanks.
I don’t know how PINs are managed, but a common technique for storing “variables” in Glide is to use columns in the User Profile row. This is a good choice, as the User Profile row can be accessed from anywhere in an App (as long as a user is signed in) for both read and write.
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Sure is…and I dare say “best practice” among fellow Glide experts.
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Can a PW be entered without anyone seeing those characters?
Kind of. You can use user specific columns or row owners to help isolate who has access to that password value, but in no way would I ever consider it fully secure. Data is still stored in clear text. Most businesses that deal with passwords are typically storing them as encrypted, hashed, and salted values under tight security. Nothing in Glide offers the security that I would be required to deal with passwords or credentials in our own
I personally would not recommend ever working with passwords in Glide unless security of those passwords is not much of a concern. As far as authentication to access the app, Glide handles that quite well and they deal with all of the security behind it so we don’t have to.
Yes, I agree with you. I was just wondering if the PW could be * at the point of input. This would be a good request to Glide.
No, there is not any kind of password style input available, unless there is a way to do it with CSS that I’m unaware of. Could be useful in some cases though.
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This does it automatically, if Glide ever has a component for that.
But as you said, for security issues, I don’t think this ever becomes a thing in Glide.
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