# How to count favourites for tracking (not likes)?

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-count-favourites-for-tracking-not-likes/24268>\
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**Created:** [March 14, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-count-favourites-for-tracking-not-likes/24268 "2021-03-14T23:23:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Micheline\_K](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/micheline_k/32/18864_2.png) [@Micheline\_K](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Micheline_K)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-count-favourites-for-tracking-not-likes/24268/1 "2021-03-14T23:23:16Z")

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Hi there. I’m trying to find a way to count items that are favourited in the Glide Editor for data tracking. Does anyone know a way to count favourites (not likes). Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-count-favourites-for-tracking-not-likes/24268/2 "2021-03-14T23:27:54Z")

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Is it the native favorite component? It’s writing to a user-specific column so you can’t count it live but I believe you can count semi-manually by exporting the app data once in a while.

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**Author:** ![Micheline\_K](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/micheline_k/32/18864_2.png) [@Micheline\_K](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Micheline_K)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-count-favourites-for-tracking-not-likes/24268/3 "2021-03-14T23:55:22Z")

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Thanks for your reply. Yes, the native favourite component. Could you explain what you mean by “you can count semi-manually by exporting the app data”? Since it’s a boolean, how does this work?

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-count-favourites-for-tracking-not-likes/24268/4 "2021-03-14T23:58:13Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/7/0/7072cf22a94033c22a8d8c2f19369bb34c73377b.png)

Glide now offers the ability to export app data in this section. I assume it would also include your favorite data since in my last chek, it did include all user-specific data.

So in short, you can’t do the count by Glide calculated columns, but if you really need those numbers, you can export this once in a while and use Excel/Sheet formulas to calculate it.

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**Author:** ![Micheline\_K](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/micheline_k/32/18864_2.png) [@Micheline\_K](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Micheline_K)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2021, 9:22am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-count-favourites-for-tracking-not-likes/24268/5 "2021-03-15T09:22:32Z")

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Thanks! I’ll test it out