# (\*\*UPDATE\*\*): GPT Chat History Only REMEMBERS First Message – Can’t Get Full Thread Working **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [September 22, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/update-gpt-chat-history-only-remembers-first-message-can-t-get-full-thread-working/84513 "2025-09-22T01:37:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kyle\_Kendrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kyle_kendrick/32/91920_2.png) [@Kyle\_Kendrick](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Kyle_Kendrick)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/update-gpt-chat-history-only-remembers-first-message-can-t-get-full-thread-working/84513/1 "2025-09-22T01:37:57Z")
Hey Glide team and community — I’m building a custom OpenAI-powered chat system in Glide and I’ve hit a wall for over a week. Hoping someone can help me troubleshoot what’s wrong with my message history setup. ### ⚙ What I’m Building: A chat assistant that uses Glide’s GPT block (Complete Chat with History) to let users have persistent conversations across sessions — like a mini ChatGPT clone. - Each **Session** is one conversation. - Each **Message** belongs to a Session. - Assistant responses are saved as new rows, not just inline in the user’s message row. ### ❌ The Problem: Only the **first message** is ever REMEMBERED in the message history for GPT. - **All messages are showing in the chat view** — so relations are working fine. - **BUT GPT only REMEMBERS the very first message.** - Every response it gives is as if it’s replying to message #1 — like it’s blind to the full thread. 💡 This isn’t a display issue. The visual chat log is perfect. The **message history memory for GPT** is what’s broken. - No future user messages seem to be recognized. - I know this because only the first message shows the user avatar; all others show a “?”. - I confirmed that all messages are being saved **with the correct Session ID**. - I also confirmed the GPT block is **inside the detail screen of that Session row**. ### ✅ What I’ve Done So Far: #### 📄 `Sessions` Table (my version of “Chats”): - `Session ID` (Row ID) - `User Email` (set as row owner) - `Bot Email` (pulled from Settings) - `SessionMsgs_Rel` → Relation to `Messages` where `Messages.Session ID` = `Sessions.Session ID` #### 💬 `Messages` Table: - `Content`: user input - `Result`: assistant response (optional) - `Role`: `"user"` or `"assistant"` - `Email`: sender (either logged-in user or bot) - `Receiver Email`: receiver (opposite party) - `Session ID`: points to parent session - `Timestamp`: sent time → **Both `Email` and `Receiver Email` are Row Owners** #### ⚙ GPT Block Setup (in Messages component): - **Message History** : `SessionMsgs_Rel` - **Prompt** : pulled from `Settings → Prompt` - **Message** : `Content` - **Session ID** : from current Session - **Result** : `Result` - **Role** : `"user"` - **Email** : `App → User Email` - **Receiver Email** : bot email (via lookup or single value) #### 🧠 GPT Submit Action: 1. Complete Chat with History 2. Then → Add Row to `Messages` with: - `Content`: Result - `Role`: `"assistant"` - `Email`: bot email - `Receiver Email`: user email - `Session ID`: same session - `Timestamp`: now #### 🧭 Navigation Logic: When a session is tapped, I set the current session’s ID into a user-specific column to track active chat. * * * ### 🧪 What I’ve Tried: - Double-checked everything 100x over - Verified GPT block is in the detail screen of `Sessions → SessionMsgs_Rel` - Ensured roles are being set as `"user"` and `"assistant"` in text (not capitalized) - Confirmed all Row Owner rules are applied correctly - Checked that Submit action writes the assistant reply as a **new row** , not updating user row - Tried logging and watching message flow — everything is saving as expected * * * ### ❓What I Need: - Is there something _else_ Glide needs in the config for the GPT block to access multiple messages by Session ID? - Is there a bug with the message history system only remembering the first message? - Is there a better way to pass `Msgs_Rel` into the GPT block for memory? * * * ### Screenshots / Reference: Happy to provide screen recordings or screenshots if needed. This is a core part of my project, and it’s so close — but GPT just isn’t remembering the full message thread. Appreciate any help — Thank you so much in advance! * * * ---
**Author:** ![Kyle\_Kendrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kyle_kendrick/32/91920_2.png) [@Kyle\_Kendrick](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Kyle_Kendrick)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/update-gpt-chat-history-only-remembers-first-message-can-t-get-full-thread-working/84513/2 "2025-09-22T16:26:11Z")
**Update: It’s working.** After weeks of Glide’s `Complete chat (with history)` silently dropping memory, I rebuilt the entire flow manually: • Created a `Msg_JSON_Snippet` per message • Joined + wrapped them in `[]` in `Sessions` • Looked up that full history into `Messages` via relation • Passed the wrapped JSON into the `Complete chat` block (no history) • Manually wrote the assistant reply to `Messages` Now it remembers every message. Every session. Perfectly. If Glide’s memory isn’t working for you — stop using their auto-history. Build your own. You’ll never go back. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/update-gpt-chat-history-only-remembers-first-message-can-t-get-full-thread-working/84513/3 "2025-09-22T23:45:38Z")
That’s the general way to build it, but beware with the limit of tokens you can send in a single call, and the cost it would take to keep up a long conversation with that approach.