Multiple Texts column now in Public Preview

[DJP]

You can now store arrays of text in a basic column.

This column type is particularly useful for assigning multiple roles to a user of your app.

Give it a try and drop your suggestions in this thread. Thanks!

As a reminder, Preview features should not be used in Production apps. Read more about Glide’s product release cycle in our Glide Doc.

[Darren_Murphy]

I used this in one of my Apps just this week for allocating multiple roles per user, and it works perfectly. It was the last thing I needed to start decoupling Google Sheets altogether from some of my Apps

[Mikaeldorval]

I’m running into this error trying to display rows using multiple texts as row owners. List displays fine when not using multiple texts as row owners but displays this error when using it.

[ThinhDinh]

@Mikaeldorval Moving your topic here for visibility (I generally do that for public preview features instead of keeping the bug topic).

[Darren_Murphy]

I’m not sure if this is actually supported.
I know you can use Multiple Texts as the Role column, but I’m not sure if it supports Row Owners.

But either way, you shouldn’t be seeing that error message, so I’d say that’s definitely a bug.

[DJP]

Could you send me a support link for your app? I can take a look

[nathanaelb]

Until now I had always stayed clear from assigning multiple roles to a user because it required Google Sheets. Now I can definitely start working with these multiple role columns in the data editor and a loop in the workflow editor

[DJP]

@Mikaeldorval, can you send your support link in this thread?

Glide Doc on how to find it: https://www.glideapps.com/docs/reference/account/support

[Mikaeldorval]

Thanks, here’s the link: https://go.glideapps.com/support/0ca343d9-7785-4dd1-a304-dd22b183470b

[DJP]

Thank you for this report! We will log this as something that is incompatible as of now. To @Darren_Murphy’s point, I would have the Users hold multiple roles and then have multiple separate columns as row owners

[idevnva]

For some reason it doesn’t work when you set RowID as a Role.

[idevnva]

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[NFNHello]

Just double checking… which column do you have set as the role in the User Profile general settings?

I’ve successfully set the RowID as role so I’m wondering if there is a bug I don’t see or if there is something in your app that needs attention.

[idevnva]

[NFNHello]

Maybe it’s working. Try adding a column with values in your second table to see the results. I notice in my table, the RowID column is not highlighted (or highlighted less?), even though the user has access. Other columns are highlighted though.

[idevnva]

I have it a little different, I don’t use RowID rows, but use the Basic TEXT column

[idevnva]

But I checked, even on RowID the lines don’t work

[NFNHello]

What happens if you place a dummy value (not Admin) in the column next to your RowID in the second table?

[idevnva]

It doesn’t work no matter how much I look

[idevnva]