How to Track User Email in Google Sheets Edit History from Glide?

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Hi everyone,

I’m hoping someone can tell me whether what I’m trying to do is even possible in Glide.

My Glide app is connected to a Google Sheet, so whenever a user edits a row in the app, the corresponding row in the Sheet is updated. In Google Sheets you can right-click a cell and choose “Show edit history,” which normally shows the email address of the person who made each change. I expected to see the email of the Glide user who edited the data, but every change shows up as the Glide owner’s email instead.

Is there any way to have Google Sheets record the actual email of the user who edited the row through Glide, rather than the owner account? If you’ve tackled this before—or know for sure that it can’t be done—I’d really appreciate your insight.

Thanks in advance!

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The user is not making changes to the sheet. The glide servers are through your linked google user account. That’s why they all show at you. As far as your users and the app are concerned, there is no concept of a connected google sheet. The app communicates with Glide (which has its own copy of your data) and Glide syncs with the Google sheet. If you want logging of individual user changes, you will have to build something yourself or at least record the user email in the same row with every edit.

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thanks for the answer guys

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