# Welcome Message

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/welcome-message/85445>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [November 19, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/welcome-message/85445 "2025-11-19T14:49:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sdmaddir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/sdmaddir/32/91938_2.png) [@sdmaddir](https://community.glideapps.com/u/sdmaddir)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/welcome-message/85445/1 "2025-11-19T14:49:07Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/welcome-message/85445/2 "2025-11-19T14:55:02Z")

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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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**Author:** ![jb\_1mprove](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jb_1mprove/32/92375_2.png) [@jb\_1mprove](https://community.glideapps.com/u/jb_1mprove)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/welcome-message/85445/3 "2025-11-19T22:26:31Z")

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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.**