# User onboarding not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [May 15, 2023, 10:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-onboarding-not-working/61773 "2023-05-15T10:40:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**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 18, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-onboarding-not-working/61773/17 "2023-05-18T12:47:09Z")
I’m pretty sure I’ve read a handful of posts where records added to an Airtable table can take much longer to appear. I don’t know why and I don’t have any experience using Airtable, so I can’t provide much help there. Just a couple related posts. I’m sure there is more. Maybe someone with Airtable experience can chime in. > [@Glide user profiles with Airtable](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-user-profiles-with-airtable/58264/4): > > I was just about to post about this topic, but you may know the answer to this. In order to combat missing user information to improve onboarding, I have made a user flow that hides all pages but one upon signup if the role for that user is blank. Problem is that using an Airtable table for user profiles introduces lag between sign up and being able to reference that new user row to edit. Sometimes writing is unreliable, or sometimes the user is simply not even created (row not created on the … > [@Airtable sync speed](https://community.glideapps.com/t/airtable-sync-speed/57282/7): > > +1 to this. @david For my use-case, creating new rows and having those rows be immediately editable is a huge issue when working with airtable. This is the case when a “linked” (airtable related) field is updated or created in another table. Here is an example of that flow: New user is created User edits their information immediately (Does not work sometimes due to sync time) User creates a new related record (Record A) related to their user profile row User creates related record to Record … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-onboarding-not-working/61773)._