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Hello @Jeff_Hager , out of curiosity I wanted to ask if it’s possible to generate codes such as this upon a button press only, or once generated, is automatically stored into a separate column without any button inputs.

My use-case is that this computed field takes a long time to load, especially when I’m displaying a large list of records. So instead of the computed field working automatically, I was thinking if it would be possible to only generate thumbnails when I press a button (e.g. called “Generate thumbnail”). Does Glide have any features like this?

The problem is that computed columns are generated in every session. So I’m thinking that once I press the button mentioned above, it could generate (or copy & paste) the thumbnail into an “Image” column, so that the thumbnail is stored as part of the record, and it won’t need to be computed every time the record is displayed.

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In the simplest form, you could leave it as part of your table, and then have a button the copies the result to a different column.

You could also probably have it as part of a custom form when adding rows, and then write the result to the destination table when you submit the form.

I suppose you could probably use some external service if it allows you to process code and return a result.

A lot of ways to approach it, but I guess it all comes down to how rows are added, or how a video is uploaded or linked, and when in the process you would want to save the permanent image uri.

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