So, setting up a new app. New user signs up. They add their data. Any data they add on other sheets is controlled too. Do you control that data via their email address or their RowID So far I have always used email, but what happens if a user wants to change their email for any reason. Could the…

Excellent. To sum up. For Row Owner throughout an app, use email address For linking data across sheets use RowID, regardless of whether you are also taking across email address for row owner.

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Jeff_Hager February 5, 2021, 4:54pm 7

Correct. A lookup won’t work for Row Owners, so better to write it to the sheet to begin with.

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