# Random Fun Fact about Generate image column

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/random-fun-fact-about-generate-image-column/18657>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [November 19, 2020, 7:50am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/random-fun-fact-about-generate-image-column/18657 "2020-11-19T07:50:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pablo\_books](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pablo_books/32/2110_2.png) [@Pablo\_books](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pablo_books)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 7:50am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/random-fun-fact-about-generate-image-column/18657/1 "2020-11-19T07:50:24Z")

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Part of this is a bug, part of this is a life hack. Let’s go over the life hack first.

## The generate image column is just this TEXT!!

`glide:triangles/mesh,input`  
Meaning, that if you type `glide:mesh,h` as the URL of the image component will display Mesh for the input H. I don’t know about you but this just saves me an entire column of data.

## Bug: When typing `glide:mesh/triangles` without the comma and the input, the screen COMPLETELY freezes and you need to delete the tab.

I had to do it by copy&paste.

Just thought I’d like to share.

P.S. Yes, I know that typing `glide:mesh,h` will not be a unique value. You could use a template column for that. But that doesn’t save you any rows 😏

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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:** [November 19, 2020, 11:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/random-fun-fact-about-generate-image-column/18657/2 "2020-11-19T11:05:36Z")

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It’s just a new column and won’t save you any rows, why do you have to do this?

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**Author:** ![Pablo\_books](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pablo_books/32/2110_2.png) [@Pablo\_books](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pablo_books)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/random-fun-fact-about-generate-image-column/18657/3 "2020-11-19T16:47:06Z")

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What do you mean? I’m not actually adding a new column, I’m placing it as the url of the image.

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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:** [November 19, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/random-fun-fact-about-generate-image-column/18657/4 "2020-11-19T17:23:19Z")

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Ah I think I got you now, you mean you can enter it as a custom URL and it will work just fine?

Actually I prefer just using what they give us in the column, in case anything breaks when they change the format I won’t have to re-do the custom URLs, and I still want it to be unique, a template column and a glide-generated image column both take 1 column.

Thanks for sharing.