If you’re using User Profiles, you can now use columns from the currently signed-in user in visibility conditions as well as in computed columns in the Data Editor. Here’s an example where we enable the Edit screen only if the signed-in user is an “editor”: [2020-04-29 07.47.10] You can read more about it in our docs. As always, we love to hear your feedback!

Love it! Especially the premium user idea. This will be very helpful.

Neat…so basically, this saves app developers the trouble of creating this functionality using the good ol’ relation/lookup/is signed in user combo?

Yes, what used to require ugly hacks at best is now easy.

Nice! I like the flexibility of it all. Use case: In a form/edit screen, I like to use visibility settings to show/hide components based on other values the user has already filled out/selected. For example, I could hide a choice component once the user selected an option…but that means the user couldn’t change their mind once they selected it. Now they can, I can point to the user profile column rather than the identical sheet column to keep the choice component visible until the value actually writes to the sheet. [Screen_Shot_2020-04-29_at_11_46_29_AM] Proof of concept: [ScreenFlow]

Hey Robert! I love what you are doing here! I am curious, when I have set up my user profiles to a sheet, I am getting repeating data every time a user logs in. like the app:logins and and user profiles sheet have become one. No matter what sheet I use and what app I have enabled this for, this is the behavior I see. Are you seeing this same behavior when using the user profiles? We had an exchange about this in another thread, but I am trying to understand how others are dealing with this weird duplication of users issue.

Yes this is correct. When you are using user profile option, every time a new user log in one new line will be added automatically and this will eat your row count, which is not favourable for free user under 500 row limit.

Hi Ben, With User Profiles enabled, you’ll still get new rows in App: Logins. Glide has mentioned that they might eventually phase this out. There’s no longer any need, though, to reference this sheet with Unique formulas or scripts, etc.

Whaou, that’s great! You are shipping really fast new features, but that also mean I need to re-make all my current app now :sweat_smile:

🙋‍♀️ User Profile columns in conditions and columns

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Mrinal_Chakraborty April 29, 2020, 5:33pm 8

Great ! It will certainly reduce number of column and relations.

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🙋‍♀️ User Profile columns in conditions and columns

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