[Video Tutorial] Always show the last 4 items in your home screen

Hello Glide comunity,

Today I’ll teach you how to always show the latest 4 items in your homescreen of your Glide app using a few formulas on your spreadsheets

The formulas i use in the video are:

=ARRAYFORMULA(if($E2:$E = index($E$2:$E, COUNTA($E$2:$E)),“TRUE”, ) & ARRAYFORMULA(if($E2:$E = index($E$2:$E, COUNTA($E$2:$E)-1),“TRUE”, )) & ARRAYFORMULA(if($E2:$E = index($E$2:$E, COUNTA($E$2:$E)-2),“TRUE”, )) & ARRAYFORMULA(if($E2:$E = index($E$2:$E, COUNTA($E$2:$E)-3),“TRUE”, )))

The explanation is:

if($E2:$E = index($E$2:$E, COUNTA($E$2:$E)),“TRUE”, )
If any item of the “E” column is equal to the last item of the same “E” column then return TRUE, and if not, just leave it empty.

COUNTA($E$2:$E))
This will count all the populated cells in the “E” column starting from “E2”

index($E$2:$E, COUNTA($E$2:$E)-1)
Here we are getting the last value -1 of the “E” column. Index shows the value of a cell in a range, in this case column “E”, and the row is calculated by COUNTA but -1.

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Great work, thanks for sharing :smiley:

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Why you not make new sheet tab, then just use query, order by timestamp and limit 4

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Agreed that is what I have used.

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because then i would have to create another sheet tab for every category i have and it’s just annoying to have too much sheet tabs haha

Thanks