# Row Owners field

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owners-field/77828>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [November 11, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owners-field/77828 "2024-11-11T18:55:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Si\_Gal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/si_gal/32/79433_2.png) [@Si\_Gal](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Si_Gal)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owners-field/77828/1 "2024-11-11T18:55:00Z")

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Hi,

I’ve created an app and I am using row owners and a row owner access column (for admins to see all data) and the row owner is a combination of a 4 digit pin and their surname. I have signup form that allows a user to sign up but an admin must verify their account before they can access any funtionality. When an admin verifies the account, there is a button that generates the 4 digit pin and then writes the pin with their surname to the row owner column.

This works nicely but everytime I test it I can see the data is written to the row owner column but after 10 seconds the data is wiped and the table field is empty.

Has anyone come across this issue before when using row owners.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owners-field/77828/2 "2024-11-11T18:57:04Z")

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Are you sure you don’t mean a Role column? You can write to a row owner column, but you cannot write to a role column via the app.

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**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owners-field/77828/3 "2024-11-11T18:58:04Z")

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What @Jeff_Hager said. It’s a security feature. If you need to write to the role column, you’ll need to use the Edit Row Glide API (or corresponding Make module)

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**Author:** ![Si\_Gal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/si_gal/32/79433_2.png) [@Si\_Gal](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Si_Gal)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owners-field/77828/4 "2024-11-11T21:15:39Z")

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ah ok, that would make sense then. Thank you

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/row-owners-field/77828/5 "2024-11-18T21:15:43Z")

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