# Two Questions regarding Published Apps **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [July 21, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/two-questions-regarding-published-apps/83317 "2025-07-21T03:20:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SageCat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/sagecat/32/85273_2.png) [@SageCat](https://community.glideapps.com/u/SageCat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/two-questions-regarding-published-apps/83317/1 "2025-07-21T03:20:18Z")
I have two questions regarding published apps please. Firstly, I’ve published a sample site so people can see what the app looks like and play with it by making it a public app, no user login required. But my question is can I make a certain user profile the profile that people use on the sample? Or is it a matter of deleting all but one user profile that I want used and THEN publishing the app? Reason being is some users can see part items where as other users can see all items so I want the guest to see all the items. Second question, same scenario of public site no login. I was going to have a landing page to gather users emails just into a general table, not a user table. I can do that no worries but is it possible for the app to be smart and if that user comes back to the app at another time, it knows they have been before so it wont show the landing screen and instead go to the regular starting page? I figure it is something to do with Client ID from what I’ve read (where it tracks browser ID) but I’m not sure how to implement or even if its possible. Oh, and I’m using the free version of Glide in case that makes any difference. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2025, 4:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/two-questions-regarding-published-apps/83317/2 "2025-07-21T04:38:11Z")
The answer is essentially no in both cases. The bottom line is that if Users are not signing in and creating profiles, then you have no reliable (and secure) way to identify a user. ---
**Author:** ![SageCat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/sagecat/32/85273_2.png) [@SageCat](https://community.glideapps.com/u/SageCat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/two-questions-regarding-published-apps/83317/3 "2025-07-21T04:48:33Z")
Ahh, ok. Shame. I thought ClientID was the key for second question but I obviously didn’t fully understand. And I wasn’t sure about first question. But thanks for letting me know. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/two-questions-regarding-published-apps/83317/4 "2025-07-21T04:58:31Z")
You could make a guess based on device attributes - browser type, version, screen size, etc. But it won’t be reliable and you’d most likely end up creating more problems than you will solve. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/two-questions-regarding-published-apps/83317/5 "2025-07-22T00:08:27Z")
> [@Darren\_Murphy](#): > > You could make a guess based on device attributes - browser type, version, screen size, etc. But it won’t be reliable and you’d most likely end up creating more problems than you will solve. I agree. Speaking from experience with the CSS library, I wouldn’t recommend building the same thing for any serious apps. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/two-questions-regarding-published-apps/83317/6 "2025-07-22T00:21:21Z")
How many profiles named “Darren” do you have in that App? Asking for a friend… ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/two-questions-regarding-published-apps/83317/7 "2025-07-22T00:23:45Z")
12 Darrens, 1 Darren Murphy, 1 Darren Humphries. Glad you asked 😆 . ---
**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:** [July 29, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/two-questions-regarding-published-apps/83317/8 "2025-07-29T00:24:07Z")
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