I may be missing something very basic. I am implementing row owners in my app; the user is able to create a routine they will then add activities to. It is my assumption that all I need to do is implement the row ower functionality and then only data associated with that creator will be visible. I …

Yes, that is the intention of Row Owners. In that case, you will need to include the email of the user when they create new rows, and then apply Row Owners to that email column.

Can you show some screenshots of how you’ve got things setup? Are user’s emails being added to the rows that they are adding AND is that row set as the Row Owner column? If that is in place, then the user whose email is in the Row Owner column should have access to the data in that row (and any oth…

[GlideApp (3)] My current iteration includes having the User ID set as the row owner. User ID is added to the Routine sheet when the user creates it.

User ID’s can’t be set as a row owner. Row Owners only work with emails. It needs to match the email used to sign in with the email that’s on the row. (This works with anonymous emails too)

I was reading this post and I was hoping to use the row IDs to link data to the user account. In case the email changed. [image] Row Owner - RowID v Email, or other options - discuss Correct. A lookup won’t work for Row Owners, so better to write it to the sheet to begi…

Well, my first question is this. Are you trying to use Row Owners for data security, or as a way to filter data without actually using a filter? What are your priorities as far as your use of Row Owners? Dealing with a user changing their email is a whole different obstacle. There is a lot of un…

My goal is to protect user data from all other users. Each user will have an opportunity to create many different rows in at least 3 different tables so each of those rows should only be viewable by the user who created them. Which is what I assumed the premise of row owners is.

That completely makes sense; how would you suggest dealing with email changes in that case? It seems like an imperfect solution.

Yeah, I don’t think there is a perfect way to deal with that. I think everything with Glide is very ingrained into an email address. If a user changed their email, you would probably have to do a Find/Replace and manually switch all rows of data to the new email address. Then there are things lik…

I wonder if you could use an array to manage email changes. That is, add a new email, but capture it in a 2nd Email column, which would create an array that could be the Row Owner. I haven’t done this, just thinking of ways to work around this potential issue.

Thanks very much to both of you!! @Jeff_Hager I got way too much in my head avoided looking at the obvious answers. @kyleheney I will try this idea when I build out my password reset page.

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Darren_Murphy February 11, 2021, 12:28am 16

Excuse me for jumping in here, but this one triggered my spidey sense…
Are you planning on managing passwords in Glide, and/or implementing your own authentication mechanism? This is generally not recommended, and in fact is actively discouraged.

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