# Row Owner on Glide Computed Columns

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owner-on-glide-computed-columns/30974>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [August 26, 2021, 6:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owner-on-glide-computed-columns/30974 "2021-08-26T06:11:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Purvang\_Joshi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/purvang_joshi/32/12645_2.png) [@Purvang\_Joshi](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Purvang_Joshi)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 6:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owner-on-glide-computed-columns/30974/1 "2021-08-26T06:11:48Z")

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I’ve use cases where roles are being assigned based on an if-else column.  
Earlier when I was using google sheets, I was able to do that. But after migrating to glide tables, I can’t do it.

Example:  
Team Lead A:  
Employees Under Team Lead: M, N, O

Team Lead B:  
Employees Under Team Lead: X, Y, Z

Now, If I want to assign O to Team Lead B. So, All Employee O’s Data would be accessible by Team Lead B.

It should have this capability to swap row owners based on glide computed columns.

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**Author:** ![Krivo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/krivo/32/5363_2.png) [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 7:19am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owner-on-glide-computed-columns/30974/2 "2021-08-26T07:19:17Z")

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@Purvang_Joshi jeff describes quite well why a computed column cannot be used for row owner - and I would say likewise for ite columns as you don’t know which data to download before the actual ite is run

> [@🛡️Roles and Row Owners DEMYSTIFIED](https://community.glideapps.com/t/roles-and-row-owners-demystified/22956/9):
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> Great information. I also will be referring people to this post…probably often. I just want to add the reason WHY row owners can only be applied to basic columns in a google sheet or glide table. I think what many people don’t realize is that any computed columns are actually computed on a user’s device. It may seem like it’s done on the glide server, but it’s not. This includes relations, lookups, template, math, etc. Anything that’s not a basic column. Because of that, for example, the …