# To relate, or not to relate, that's the question **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [July 31, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/to-relate-or-not-to-relate-thats-the-question/45661 "2022-07-31T19:16:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/to-relate-or-not-to-relate-thats-the-question/45661/10 "2022-08-02T19:28:12Z")
I touch on my method in this post below. It’s not a native glide feature, but uses existing glide functionality to change the email in a way that makes it an unowned row. Tables that have row owners enabled, but do not have a matching email for the signed in user will not be downloaded because they are unowned. > [@Auto Archiving, Sanity Check, Reusable Forms, etc](https://community.glideapps.com/t/auto-archiving-sanity-check-reusable-forms-etc/44544): > > I wanted to share a few techniques that I just implemented in my app. A little background…I’m building a process in my app that will replace the email address with a template value. What it does is replace user@email.com with ARCHIVE-user@email.com. The email column is a row owner column. Once ARCHIVE is appended to the email, it becomes an unowned row and is permanently hidden from the app. I’m doing this in an effort to speed up my app by hiding data that’s more than 2 years old. Unowned… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/to-relate-or-not-to-relate-thats-the-question/45661)._