# Side Navigation: Possible? If so, how to achieve it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [August 7, 2024, 10:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/side-navigation-possible-if-so-how-to-achieve-it/75485 "2024-08-07T10:00:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Himaladin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/himaladin/32/71023_2.png) [@Himaladin](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Himaladin)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 11:30am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/side-navigation-possible-if-so-how-to-achieve-it/75485/21 "2024-08-08T11:30:52Z")
Try creating a new topic. I find this very useful and especially makes it easier to find. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 11:56am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/side-navigation-possible-if-so-how-to-achieve-it/75485/22 "2024-08-08T11:56:06Z")
> [@Eric\_Penn](#): > > If there was something in writing from Glide then pros like Darren and Jeff would recommend this approach. The fact that I don’t recommend it isn’t because I think it’s a bad idea. It just doesn’t occur to me because I’ve never used or needed it myself. I’m all for taking advantage of these hidden features. A bit like setting roles via the API. Glide have never said anything about that, but it’s incredibly useful and I use it all the time 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eric\_Penn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/eric_penn/32/73888_2.png) [@Eric\_Penn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Eric_Penn)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/side-navigation-possible-if-so-how-to-achieve-it/75485/23 "2024-08-08T14:04:17Z")
> [@Darren\_Murphy](#): > > I’m all for taking advantage of these hidden features. A bit like setting roles via the API. 1000% I also use this trick if i see a repeating value from a single value column. Basically if I see that a single value column is repeating a value somewhere in a table I remove it and add the single value column from the user profile table and reference the user profile value instead. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/side-navigation-possible-if-so-how-to-achieve-it/75485/24 "2024-08-08T14:11:54Z")
mmm, that’s a good idea. I do a similar thing with Date math columns that reference the current date/time. I used to have those littered all over the place in my Apps, and lots of duplication. But nowadays I just create a `date/` group of columns in the User Profile row, and reference them from there. ![CleanShot 2024-08-08 at 22.11.05@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/4/7/4768e863f1ecc1fc486bf9542a14dfccf1272c14.png) ---
**Author:** ![Eric\_Penn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/eric_penn/32/73888_2.png) [@Eric\_Penn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Eric_Penn)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/side-navigation-possible-if-so-how-to-achieve-it/75485/25 "2024-08-08T14:20:38Z")
Yes, exactly. In addition, keeping visitors in mind, I try to avoid adding user specific columns in data tables. Sometimes you can not avoid adding user specific columns to data tables but most of the time, by utilising one row tables as the main driver of screens, we can get away with putting the user specific columns in the one row tables. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/side-navigation-possible-if-so-how-to-achieve-it/75485/26 "2024-08-15T14:21:09Z")
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