User Profiles & User Specific Columns

[Lucas_Pires]

Guys,

Have you ever noticed some glitch with user-specific columns sometimes?
Eg. You add a value and it glitch per a sec, like a blank, and come back…

I’ve been noticed that for a while… but still keeps this kinda glitch

[Jeff_Hager]

Yes I have. It kind of made sense before we had user specific columns and had to use sheet columns, but I still get that ping pong effect with user specific columns.

[Lucas_Pires]

@Jeff_Hager

ping pong effect

Exactly

[ThinhDinh]

This has happened to me as well, and specifically on screens where I have a lot of user-specific choice components.

[AyS_0908]

Hi @ThinhDinh, you’re definetely a Glide angel!

I experience the same issue, and tried to apply what you recommend (deleting all rows & columns + using A2:A <>"" in arrayformula).
Nevertheless, I keep having 2 rows created when a user signs-up (see picture): one with the full line filled-in (inc. an ID from special values) and one just with the email.

So, sorry, but I have to ask you again for any idea!
Thanks in advance

[Jeff_Hager]

Could Google log-in automatically create account?

So for clarification you are letting Glide create a new row when a user signs in the first time as well as using a form to write a second row? That’s why I mentioned that you should not be using a form button to finish the profile and should instead be editing the existing row that Glide created. Create a button instead with a link to screen action that takes the user to the profile sheet (filtered by signed in user). There they can finish their profile. When done, you can set visibility to …

[gvalero]

Ping pong effect? Who called me? I think I look like a Pro player with this!
I have reported this issue from 2 months ago and Mark promised to fix it soon but it is still alive.

Show another sheet column in Form

It´s what I call a ping pong effect. I have seen this before when an APP has multiple choices and relations Here you can see this annoying effect https://dynchoices.glideapp.io [image] If you select an option, the relation works but there is a delay to read/write the final value and meanwhile, the old value comes back and changes the screen. I have thought it could be a failure caused by internet speed (sometines the ping pong effect appears at beggining and later, everything works fine)…

The problem is not based on user specific columns, my demo APP doesn´t use it because it was developed before this feature was released.

Saludos!

[ThinhDinh]

Would this help? Can you tell us more about your flow?

Problems with sign-in/sign-up process

Hi Lorenzo, Having a form button for a registration process is not a good practice as it adds a new row to your data and make it duplicate. Instead, filter the profile page by signed-in user using the email (as each new email login will always add a new row for that email as you have seen), then enable the edit option in the tab. Therefore, a user can only see and edit their own profile page, setup the registration process in that edit button just like how you do it for the form. Also add a …

[AyS_0908]

Hi, as per your recommendations, I tried again the ‘profile’ set-up via a ‘link-to-screen’ button to edit the profile (rather than a ‘form’).

Did you already encountered some editable-fields full ‘grey’ / not use-able?

Thank you!

[ThinhDinh]

It’s likely that the email hasn’t been recognized as a new row in your sheets (because you’re editing using the editor). Try signing in using the real live app, go back to your editor and preview as that email.

[AyS_0908]

Hey! Now it works!
Thanks

[Sanchit_Bareja]

Is there a way to look at all notes or favorites submitted by any user? I don’t know if there’s a way to “export” the user specific columns today without going through each user individually.

[Jeff_Hager]

No way to export the data, but you can use the ‘Preview As’ feature in the builder to preview as each user and see their user specific data in the data editor or the app emulator.

[Sanchit_Bareja]

Is there no way to look at it across users (even if I can’t export that data?) I want to see how much certain features are being used and i should deprecate them. viewing individually is quite painful

[Jeff_Hager]

No, there isn’t a way at this time. Hopefully in the future we will be able to use a rollup column on user specific columns.

[Sanchit_Bareja]

got it, thanks!

[James_Boynton]

Hi @Jeff_Hager, I came across this thread when trying to create a user’s profile using a button after they had signed in… I believe that the “link to screen” action means that they must click on the edit icon in the top right in order to finish filling out their profile - correct?

I could see having some text instructing them to click on the edit button that would disappear once it’s filled out, but that’s not the most ideal UI…

[ThinhDinh]

I have an onboarding profile creation example in this app here, you can copy it back.

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[James_Boynton]

@ThinhDinh wow - that is slick - thank you! I love that profiledone increment part. This is a great solution to having a “splash” page to explain navigation that can also be silenced with a checkbox.

Where do you store the user profile info? I don’t see anything listed next to my email at the bottom of the User profiles table, but yet does display under Your profile with a random image.

[ThinhDinh]

As long as you have an email, there will be a random image generated if I recall right. Can you give me some screenshots if you want it furtherly explained? Thank you.