# NOT saving users email address on edit (pencil)
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/not-saving-users-email-address-on-edit-pencil/5818
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [March 25, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/not-saving-users-email-address-on-edit-pencil/5818 "2020-03-25T04:02:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Jonathon\_Kohn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jonathon_Kohn)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/not-saving-users-email-address-on-edit-pencil/5818/1 "2020-03-25T04:02:11Z")
Is there a way to avoid grabbing a users email upon edit submission (done button) if fields are not set to required (enabling the “done” button) and an edit was NOT actually made?
Using a form button will not work for this application as it’s a statewide crowdsource and need to avoid vlookup at all costs.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/not-saving-users-email-address-on-edit-pencil/5818/2 "2020-03-26T04:18:36Z")
Would it be better to accept edits using a form button instead? I understand what your problem is, but currently, what happens if you make a valid edit, and then a couple minutes later I make another valid edit to the same record. I would think that I would be taking the credit away from you because now my email address in in the record. This is irregardless if it’s a valid edit or not. That’s why I think a form button would be better. From there, I don’t know if it would be better to use a series of vlookups to find and update data or use zapier or scripting to take the last form submission and update the existing record.
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### Author:  [@Jonathon\_Kohn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jonathon_Kohn)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/not-saving-users-email-address-on-edit-pencil/5818/3 "2020-03-26T04:44:39Z")
That’s exactly where I’m stuck… may have to end up removing the gamification from edits and only apply it upon new listings, shared photos, and donations… I want to avoid vlookup on a statewide open source as much as possible!
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### Author:  [@Jonathon\_Kohn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jonathon_Kohn)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/not-saving-users-email-address-on-edit-pencil/5818/4 "2020-03-26T05:10:06Z")
Wondering why this post and another we’re flagged as spam by the community?
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/not-saving-users-email-address-on-edit-pencil/5818/5 "2020-03-26T05:26:08Z")
hmm, not sure. I didn’t see anything wrong with your posts. Unless someone is fat fingering the flag button by accident, but seems odd that it happened in a couple of your posts.
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### Author:  [@Jonathon\_Kohn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jonathon_Kohn)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/not-saving-users-email-address-on-edit-pencil/5818/6 "2020-03-26T05:57:15Z")
I edited them down 🙂