# How to "clear an entire column" (compound action trickery) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Tags:** actions\ **Created:** [November 17, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-clear-an-entire-column-compound-action-trickery/18555 "2020-11-17T13:59:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 4:22am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-clear-an-entire-column-compound-action-trickery/18555/23 "2023-12-12T04:22:33Z")
@biha - you should be able to use the “parentID” method for this. Have you tried it? > [@Reset Multiple Rows At Once](https://community.glideapps.com/t/reset-multiple-rows-at-once/22211): > > There have been several requests for people to find a way to clear a value in multiple rows. I was thinking about that and came up with a quick example of a way to handle that. Instead of trying to clear a value in an entire column, I realized we could just change one value on a parent column, load it as a single value in our sheet and then compare that parent value to a column that we set or unset for each row. It’s not about clearing an entire column, it’s about making a value in each row n… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-clear-an-entire-column-compound-action-trickery/18555)._