# Secondary sign in

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/secondary-sign-in/17294>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [October 18, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/secondary-sign-in/17294 "2020-10-18T20:35:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![GaryBritton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/41988e/32.png) [@GaryBritton](https://community.glideapps.com/u/GaryBritton)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/secondary-sign-in/17294/1 "2020-10-18T20:35:52Z")

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Hi all. I think I have seen something showcased along these lines, but I want to create a secondary id on sign in (4 digits) plus the user first name.

Is this doable? I only want this to be a one time entry.

If you can help, it’s the missing link for my app build.

Cheers all

Gary

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/secondary-sign-in/17294/2 "2020-10-18T22:20:35Z")

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I imagine it would only work for public apps, it can’t work as an alternative for non-public ones because we don’t have a native way for now.

When a user signs in, alongside other types of info in their user profiles, have a column for their first name and a column for the “4 digits”. Use a template column to combine them.

Then create a “sign in” tab, with a text entry writing to a user-specific column telling them to input their username (the template column above) or sign in with email (use the sign in button).

If user is signed in or the text entry matches a row in your sheet then show them the right content.

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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:** [October 18, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/secondary-sign-in/17294/3 "2020-10-18T22:24:52Z")

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Agreed! It might even be a bit more convenient to create an if then in the Data Editor:

If email is not signed in user then FALSE  
If email+4 is not (user specific text entry) then FALSE  
else TRUE

Then use this column for tab visibility etc where this column equals TRUE.