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I’m trying to display a personalized welcome message on my Home Screen using a Template column in the Users table.

  • The Template column itself works correctly in the Data Editor — it shows the expected values for each user row.
  • On the Home Screen, however, the Text component only shows a partial value from the Template column. Specifically, the user’s name does not appear.

Here’s what I’ve tested:

  • If I configure the Template column to use Email or Phone Number, the Home Screen displays the full value correctly for the signed‑in user.
  • If I configure the Template column to use First Name (user‑specific text column) or Full Name (user‑specific text column), the Template column shows the correct values in the Data Editor, but the Home Screen displays only Welcome Back, [ ] — the name is missing.

So the issue is: names from user‑specific columns don’t display on the Home Screen, while email and phone do.

My Ask

Has anyone else run into this discrepancy between Template column values and what displays on the Home Screen? Why would Email/Phone resolve correctly but First Name/Full Name show up blank in the Text component? Thank you!

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Hard to say why it’s doing that, but I’m wondering why you are using user specific columns for these types of values in the user table? Do you expect multiple users to store unique values per user in one cell for a particular row/column? I’m guessing that has something to do with it, but hard to say without screenshots showing how everything is set up.

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Since they’re user specific columns, you are seeing things from the perspective of the Preview profile that you have selected when viewing your app.

They’re only visible because YOU, with this user profile, have entered them. Now when you switched to a different profile, nothing has been entered in those user specific columns so there’s no data “available” to be shown there.

In summary: what I believe you need to do is add a non-user specific column, enter the data and your issue will be fixed.

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