Side Navigation: Possible? If so, how to achieve it?

[Himaladin]

Try creating a new topic. I find this very useful and especially makes it easier to find.

[Darren_Murphy]

@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

[Eric_Penn]

@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.

[Darren_Murphy]

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.

[Eric_Penn]

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.