Trying to allow my users to find and follow other users in the app

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Think Instagram, Facebook etc - friend or follow request that when accepted you can view their profile.

Any suggestions for a new user of Glide

Many thanks

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Hi Amelia, welcome to our community!

You can have a “Community” tab lisitng all users in the app.

Then in each details view, have a form button to submit a friend request. In the form, you would want to catch the following information:

  • Signed-in user’s email (special value)
  • Request receiver’s email (screen column)
  • Timestamp (special value)

You will write them to a “Requests” sheet that also contains a boolean column name “Accepted?”.

In the “Profiles” tab you would want to have for each signed-in user, create an inline list sourcing the “Requests” sheet, fitler by request receiver is signed-in user. Use a checklist layout for that so they can accept the request by checking a checkbox.

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Hi ThinhDinh,

Thank you so much! This all kind of makes sense but just confused if I should be doing this in the glide app or in my spreadsheet. Sorry if that is obvious, I am just wrapping my head around it all at the moment.

Best,

Amelia

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You only need to create the sheet as discussed above, the other things are set ups in the app.

It’s just a base for you to build on based on your flow. If you need further help feel free to ask us.