Hi, Do you have methods to check if columns are really necessary or if you’re taking 2-3-4-5-more columns to do something that you could do in a simpler way? I feel like I often need 2-3-4 columns to create a work around but I don’t know if it’s a workaround because Glide can’t do what I have in m…

It’s hard to give a general answer to that question. Quite often a single JavaScript column can do the work of several other columns. Other than that, if you have some specific examples we might be able to help.

This reminds me of a special moment in Glide history: [image] Find the last day of the following month Okay, I have a “solution”. And it ONLY requires 40 math columns and 3 if-then-else columns :rofl: :rofl: followed by [image] Find the last day of the following month Ask fo…

That is INSANE. :scream: And absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

Often there are ways to use fewer columns but it all depends on what you are trying to do as mentioned above. Give us an example and I’m sure you’ll get an answer.

@Darren_Murphy , @DarrenHumphries you’re absolutely right, hard to be specific without an example!! Here’s one: I’ve been building a “novels series progress tracking” app so that I know which books I need to buy, what I should read next etc. To sort the books in an order that I like, I needed to …

First, good choices in books! I would say that what you have is perfectly fine and doesn’t really need to be refined, IMO. While there may be quite a few columns to achieve what you want they don’t look to be overly processor intensive, so it isn’t likely you will have scaling issues. An example …

How to reduce number of columns?

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This reminds me of a special moment in Glide history:

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How to reduce number of columns?

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