# Limit who can add "new items" - in the works?

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/limit-who-can-add-new-items-in-the-works/12672>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [July 17, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/limit-who-can-add-new-items-in-the-works/12672 "2020-07-17T17:53:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Alexdz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/alexdz/32/10382_2.png) [@Alexdz](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Alexdz)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/limit-who-can-add-new-items-in-the-works/12672/1 "2020-07-17T17:53:28Z")

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I would like to only let users with a specific user role to add new items, but that doesn’t seem to be possible?

My workaround for now is to limit the visibility for every single component in the “add new” and have one text component with an alert for users who are not allowed to edit something new.

This is not ideal, I am working with loads of components, adding new ones etc.

So I just wanted to quickly ask if that is in the pipleline of new updates?

Thanks!

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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:** [July 17, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/limit-who-can-add-new-items-in-the-works/12672/2 "2020-07-17T17:55:39Z")

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I use form buttons to add records instead of the built in add function. Then you can set visibility on the form button.

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**Author:** ![Glider](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/glider/32/9699_2.png) [@Glider](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Glider)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/limit-who-can-add-new-items-in-the-works/12672/3 "2020-07-17T17:56:05Z")

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form button in detail screen  
for yoyr list  
you can use an inline list

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**Author:** ![Glider](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/glider/32/9699_2.png) [@Glider](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Glider)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/limit-who-can-add-new-items-in-the-works/12672/5 "2020-07-17T17:57:51Z")

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He said add not edit

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**Author:** ![Alexdz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/alexdz/32/10382_2.png) [@Alexdz](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Alexdz)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/limit-who-can-add-new-items-in-the-works/12672/6 "2020-07-17T17:57:59Z")

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I think you mean the edit tab, where that works just fine, yes. But I meant the “add new” tab…

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**Author:** ![Alexdz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/alexdz/32/10382_2.png) [@Alexdz](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Alexdz)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/limit-who-can-add-new-items-in-the-works/12672/7 "2020-07-17T18:07:06Z")

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I just tried this. Looks good, but the inline list doesn’t offer the option to display favorited items, right?

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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:** [July 17, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/limit-who-can-add-new-items-in-the-works/12672/8 "2020-07-17T18:29:40Z")

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It doesn’t, but you can build it yourself with a user specific column, a horizontal choice component and 2 inline lists.

> [@Search + Favorites enabled on inline list but only search bar appears...no tab for ALL/FAVORITES](https://community.glideapps.com/t/search-favorites-enabled-on-inline-list-but-only-search-bar-appears-no-tab-for-all-favorites/11826/3):
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> Another thing that I have done is to create a user specific column in the sheet, where you are displaying your detail view, to hold a choice value of All or Favorites. Then you can create two lists, one with no filter for ‘All’ and one filtered by the isfavorite or like column for ‘Favorites’. Then set visibility to show either list depending on the choice selected. There is a similar example in the first tab of this app: [https://6pbvq.glideapp.io/](https://6pbvq.glideapp.io/) and in the food/activies tab here: [https:…](https://rwtsk.glideapp.io/)