# Single item edit screens

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/single-item-edit-screens/42281
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [May 23, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/single-item-edit-screens/42281 "2022-05-23T16:50:06Z")
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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: [May 23, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/single-item-edit-screens/42281/2 "2022-05-23T17:30:11Z")

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A ‘Show New Screen’ → ‘This Item’ will give you a new screen that’s attached to the same row you are viewing. There you could place your entry components and it would be different for each button. Like I mentioned in the other post, I’d still recommend user specific columns to temporarily hold you entry values,and a submit button sith a set column action would move those user specific column values to the your regular columns.

When clicking the button to enter your “edit screen”, I would make it a custom action that would first prefill the user specific columns using a set column action before calling the Show New Screen action.

Have a look at this post. It would be similar, but instead of an Add Row action, you would use a Set Column action.

> [@How do I create a custom form?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-i-create-a-custom-form/25014):
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> I’m just dropping this here so I have something to refer people to when they ask. This is a simple concept app (copyable), that demonstrates the following techniques: Building custom forms for adding and editing list items (as an alternative to the native forms provided by Glide) Preventing duplicate new entries using [User Specific Columns](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/user-specific-columns) and [Relations](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/computed-columns/relation-column) Enforcing mandatory input items The use of visibility conditions and user specific booleans to control user flow There is nothing particula…

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