# Pass custom special value in form
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/pass-custom-special-value-in-form/46003
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [August 5, 2022, 8:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pass-custom-special-value-in-form/46003 "2022-08-05T08:58:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@urbanjobs](https://community.glideapps.com/u/urbanjobs)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2022, 8:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pass-custom-special-value-in-form/46003/1 "2022-08-05T08:58:39Z")
Glide Pages → Form
User is an employer
User posts a new job
Job can have status active or inactive
Job post created with status column = “active” (as default)
Current solution: hidden Text Entry component with default value being Active → not ideal as need to toggle a filter dependent on an arbitrary value linked to user profile
Desired solution: Custom special value that is hidden by default
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### Author:  [@Dilon\_Perera](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Dilon_Perera)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pass-custom-special-value-in-form/46003/2 "2022-08-05T11:56:07Z")
Hi @urbanjobs,
Welcome to the community 🥳
You can add a Set Column value action like this in your form! : [add job status default value 1 - glide page.mp4 - Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nY6Gu8iuRgrt5w_N3Qgv5IgvPkXQH4oZ/view?usp=sharing)
Another option would be using the Show New screen action and adding a form container there and add the default value like this! : [add job status default value 2 - glide page.mp4 - Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WMD4w8IrdoMTfEmxCRtqyauE-SGAF-U_/view?usp=sharing)
Hope this helps!
Thank you
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### Author:  [@urbanjobs](https://community.glideapps.com/u/urbanjobs)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pass-custom-special-value-in-form/46003/3 "2022-08-05T12:26:59Z")
Thanks Dilon, appreciate you putting that video together. That works for now.
Though needing to have two separate sources to input/write data like this is confusing, especially hidden away in an action
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pass-custom-special-value-in-form/46003/4 "2022-08-06T02:01:24Z")
> [@urbanjobs](#):
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> not ideal as need to toggle a filter dependent on an arbitrary value linked to user profile
Do you mean the job’s default status is dynamic, or is it “Active” every time?
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### Author:  [@urbanjobs](https://community.glideapps.com/u/urbanjobs)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2022, 7:47am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pass-custom-special-value-in-form/46003/5 "2022-08-06T07:47:45Z")
from an admin point of view in the settings
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2022, 8:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pass-custom-special-value-in-form/46003/6 "2022-08-06T08:43:00Z")
So sometimes you need it to be “Active” and sometimes “Inactive” based on Admin’s settings?
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### Author:  [@urbanjobs](https://community.glideapps.com/u/urbanjobs)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pass-custom-special-value-in-form/46003/7 "2022-08-06T10:49:59Z")
when a client creates/posts a job, they expect it to be active immediately
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pass-custom-special-value-in-form/46003/8 "2022-08-06T13:50:12Z")
I would do one of two things.
- Make blank be the same as an Active status. If it’s blank, then it’s Active. If it has some other value, then it’s Inactive.
- Or, I would create a template column in the user profile table filled with the word ‘Active’. Then just pass it through the form using a user profile value component.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/pass-custom-special-value-in-form/46003/9 "2022-08-07T00:55:59Z")
If it needs to always be Active by default, then your text entry default approach would have worked normally. Just hide that text entry with a condition that will never be true.