# How to unblock the user-specific check box?
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-unblock-the-user-specific-check-box/57909
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [February 13, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-unblock-the-user-specific-check-box/57909 "2023-02-13T20:48:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@daniel30aguilar](https://community.glideapps.com/u/daniel30aguilar)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-unblock-the-user-specific-check-box/57909/1 "2023-02-13T20:48:08Z")
Hello Community,
Do you know how to unblock the user-specific check box? I can’t check that box. Do you know why?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@slscustom.ru](https://community.glideapps.com/u/slscustom.ru)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-unblock-the-user-specific-check-box/57909/2 "2023-02-13T20:50:36Z")
Hi! You can activate it only during creating new column. At present column you can’t activate it
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### Author:  [@daniel30aguilar](https://community.glideapps.com/u/daniel30aguilar)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-unblock-the-user-specific-check-box/57909/3 "2023-02-13T20:54:28Z")
Hello Alexey, thank you, The database belongs to Google Sheets. Do I have to create this from cero? I have more than forty columns.
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### Author:  [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-unblock-the-user-specific-check-box/57909/4 "2023-02-13T21:18:53Z")
User-specific columns can only be created in Glide’s data editor. The checkbox is only available for basic columns. Once the basic column is created and saved (either as user-specific or not), then the checkbox cannot be changed.
If you wish to change the nature of the column – from non user-specific to user-specific, or vice versa – then you need to create a new column and start replacing one by the other. The “Find uses” feature will help.
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### Author:  [@daniel30aguilar](https://community.glideapps.com/u/daniel30aguilar)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-unblock-the-user-specific-check-box/57909/5 "2023-02-13T21:51:44Z")
Hello Nathanael, thank you for your reply. I did this with one column, but when I select viewing as anyone, it shows the information that should be user-specific; in this case, the input field where “casa” should be blank, right?
1. Adding the column
2. Visible to me
3. Visible to anyone?
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### Author:  [@slscustom.ru](https://community.glideapps.com/u/slscustom.ru)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-unblock-the-user-specific-check-box/57909/6 "2023-02-13T21:58:45Z")
Yes thru editor looks like a bug, but at published instance work normally
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### Author:  [@daniel30aguilar](https://community.glideapps.com/u/daniel30aguilar)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-unblock-the-user-specific-check-box/57909/7 "2023-02-13T22:09:50Z")
Hello @slscustom.ru, thank you, you are right; I published it, and it works well, is this a new bug, or has it been running like this for some time?
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### Author:  [@slscustom.ru](https://community.glideapps.com/u/slscustom.ru)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-unblock-the-user-specific-check-box/57909/8 "2023-02-13T22:13:39Z")
> [@daniel30aguilar](#):
>
> is this a new bug, or has it been running like this for some time?
I don’t remember it in a before you point it
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-unblock-the-user-specific-check-box/57909/9 "2023-02-14T22:14:27Z")
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