# What do I do wrong with visibility?
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [April 24, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982 "2021-04-24T09:23:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/1 "2021-04-24T09:23:55Z")
This drives me mad, the simplest thing doesn’t work 😉
What do I want?
I want a text component be visible if another column in the sheet is not empty, so when I put an x in that column to filter a list.
So this is what I do
Prove: it is not empty
But … the component remains invisible.
What do I do wrong?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/2 "2021-04-24T09:31:53Z")
No filtering or row owners involved?
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### Author:  [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/3 "2021-04-24T09:34:06Z")
No, it’s a plain text component I want only to be visible when column ‘Focus op wielrennen’ is not empty.
No row owners.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 9:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/4 "2021-04-24T09:36:59Z")
What happens if you put an `x` in the very first row?
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### Author:  [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/5 "2021-04-24T09:38:22Z")
I’ll have a look!
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### Author:  [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/6 "2021-04-24T09:43:56Z")
Remains the same.
But when I chose ‘Show component when Focus op wielrennen is empty’ (when it’s not) it shows the component.
But then nothing changes when I remove all x’s to make it empty.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 9:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/7 "2021-04-24T09:46:02Z")
> [@erwblo](#):
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> No, it’s a plain text component I want only to be visible when column ‘Focus op wielrennen’ is not empty.
> No row owners.
If it’s a text component, then it’s only going to show the value in the row you’re attached to, right?
So you just need to make sure the row you’re attached to has the `x` in that column.
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### Author:  [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 9:47am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/8 "2021-04-24T09:47:07Z")
Ah, you can’t relate visibility to data in another row?
I use a component with custom text
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### Author:  [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 10:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/9 "2021-04-24T10:05:17Z")
@Darren_Murphy A little more explanation.
This is
- a text component (Custom text: Focus op wielrennen)
- an inline list (filter all items with an x in field Focus op wielrennen)
So if i remove all x’s the inline list won’t be there. And when the inline list is not there i want the text component be invisible.
Hope this helps.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 10:18am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/10 "2021-04-24T10:18:22Z")
The simplest thing would be to use that custom text as the title of your Inline List.
Other than that, you may need to mess around a bit with templates and relations.
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### Author:  [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 10:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/11 "2021-04-24T10:20:28Z")
But for my understanding, is what I want impossible right now?
If feels so logical: only show this component when an other component is visible too 😉
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 10:25am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/12 "2021-04-24T10:25:00Z")
> [@erwblo](#):
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> But for my understanding, is what I want impossible right now?
I wouldn’t say it’s impossible, just requires a bit of thinking outside the box.
I’m kinda a busy right now, I’ll have a play with it a bit later.
> [@erwblo](#):
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> If feels so logical: only show this component when an other component is visible too 😉
It is… for the row you’re connected to 🙂
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### Author:  [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 10:27am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/13 "2021-04-24T10:27:23Z")
Thanks for your help!
Did it now but with the title of the list. Not what i really want but it works.
To me the UI suggests that what I want is possible in an easy way, but it clearly isn’t 😉
Thanks for help!
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### Author:  [@Fred\_Marker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Fred_Marker)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 11:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/14 "2021-04-24T11:54:15Z")
Create a Rollup count column of your inline list rows. Then set visibility condition where Count \> 0.
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### Author:  [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/15 "2021-04-24T11:58:09Z")
thanks! i’ll have a try
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### Author:  [@erwblo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/erwblo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/what-do-i-do-wrong-with-visibility/25982/16 "2021-04-24T12:31:49Z")
Yes, this did the trick! Thanks!