Removal of row owner deleted many rows, how to undo?

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I added one boolean column to one of my app’s sheets and I don’t know what happened (i made a column ‘row owner’) it ‘deactivated’ the entire sheet, it’s still there but it’s darkened out and the parts of the app that use it don’t work, are invisible.

Please help

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Ok, an accidental click made a column with row owner but now many rows (seems like the ones that were false in the boolean I added) HAVE BEEN DELETED, how do i undo all the damn steps that have been done in the database so far??

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Have you tried the back button in the lower left hand corner?

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does it undo database changes too?

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I can’t undo anything with that button atm, so, it’s not an option i suppose

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in google sheets different cells are greyed out, Idk for what reason, and the rows that have been deleted in glide are the ones that were false in the boolean i added, except 2 (4 actually), or so it seems

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You’re right, the back button is only available in the builder, not the data editor. Sorry about that.

Easy to say in hindsight, but it’s a good practice to duplicate your apps in the dashboard to have a backup. Also, when I make changes both in the data editor and in the builder and I know I might mess up, I usually at the very minimum duplicate the tab. I don’t know how to duplicate Glide tables, but I’ll practice on test columns first.

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Thank you for trying, I closed the browser’s tab and reopened it and everything seems fine.

I’m trying to think to a failsafe, probably duplicating the app every now and then but Imake so many small changes that it would be too much, there should be some undo function, for now I know that google sheets has an history function, so in case I was ready to use that backup plan.

Thanks again

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One thing I’ve noticed sometimes is that when you make changes to Row Owners (add/remove a row owner setting, for example), the web browser needs to be reloaded for everything to work properly and update.

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You may vote here. At least there is prevention of the worst things that can happen.

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Here is some simple app script for backup with a timestamp from @Jeff_Hager.

Simple. Powerful. Effective

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