# Notification (email) when forms submitted

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/notification-email-when-forms-submitted/1206
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [October 16, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/notification-email-when-forms-submitted/1206 "2019-10-16T00:43:39Z")
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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: [July 27, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/notification-email-when-forms-submitted/1206/43 "2021-07-27T23:51:14Z")

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> [@ThinhDinh](#):
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> My two cents is probably your lookup doesn’t return an email fast enough, and the email action fired before that happens.

So this is probably the case.

> [@How do I create a custom form?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-i-create-a-custom-form/25014):
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> I’m just dropping this here so I have something to refer people to when they ask. This is a simple concept app (copyable), that demonstrates the following techniques: Building custom forms for adding and editing list items (as an alternative to the native forms provided by Glide) Preventing duplicate new entries using [User Specific Columns](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/user-specific-columns) and [Relations](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/computed-columns/relation-column) Enforcing mandatory input items The use of visibility conditions and user specific booleans to control user flow There is nothing particula…

Please use this concept instead.

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