# Layout Input Help

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/layout-input-help/71789>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [March 19, 2024, 5:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/layout-input-help/71789 "2024-03-19T05:58:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![corbmore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/corbmore/32/69365_2.png) [@corbmore](https://community.glideapps.com/u/corbmore)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 5:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/layout-input-help/71789/1 "2024-03-19T05:58:15Z")

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Hey all, I’m trying to find the best way to make some user populated info/header data that doesn’t actually interact with the tables. I’ve played around with this some, but everything i’ve come up with is pretty clumsy.

The app needs to allow the user to input some basic info like name, lat/long, serial number, project etc. This data is unique to the user. The ultimate purpose of the app is to make a ~2page printable (or email) “form” for the user to be able to provide as part of a B2B work flow

Basic App Set Up

**Header Information**  
Name: John Smith  
Serial/ID Number: XXXXXXXX  
County: Harris  
State: TX  
Lat: YY.YYYYYY Long: ZZ.ZZZZZZ

**Input Data**

The user will input data here, which I take and run my calculations in my tab

**Output**  
Chart(s) and a Collection of Container of Fields

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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 19, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/layout-input-help/71789/2 "2024-03-19T12:25:19Z")

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> [@corbmore](#):
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> Hey all, I’m trying to find the best way to make some user populated info/header data that doesn’t actually interact with the tables.

Please correct me if I understand you wrong, but wouldn’t you always have to include columns to store the user input data? What exactly are you trying to do when you say “doesn’t actually interact with the tables”?

Based on your setup, if you don’t want to “store” (not sure if that’s what you mean by interact), then you can just have a one-row table that uses user-specific column for inputs.

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**Author:** ![corbmore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/corbmore/32/69365_2.png) [@corbmore](https://community.glideapps.com/u/corbmore)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/layout-input-help/71789/3 "2024-03-19T16:17:55Z")

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Are there components in glide that don’t require columns in a table?

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/layout-input-help/71789/4 "2024-03-19T18:15:13Z")

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Yes, there are components that don’t require a column in a table, but those components don’t accept user input.

If an entry component is accepting user input, then it needs to put that value somewhere, which is a column in a table, so yes you need to attach entry components to columns.