Building an app for a group who, under normal circumstances, derives 80% of its revenue from wholesale sales to restos and now-collapsing foreign export markets. A barebones infrastructure for DTC distro, the app will be a template for their individual operations. Want to give producers (not custom…

Read this. Basically you will need to create a relation from your items to an admin sheet using a Relation and Lookup to get a list of emails that have access to the switch. Then set visibility to only show when the signed in user is in the lookup. [image] Admin apps + editing ri…

Thanks @Jeff_Hager . This would work if I were to remain in control of the app but I’m allowing others (some of whom not at all tech-savvy) to copy and use on their own. Thus, the need to simplicity.

It’s actually super simple and the structure would remain the same if the app was copied. Only different user emails would be entered. The use of an admin or permission sheet would be needed no matter what. How would you plan to define user roles?

I’m sure I have several posts like this, but here is a basic step by step. [image] Allow only signed in users to posts Add a template column to the Blank Tab sheet with a value that says ‘Profile’ Add an identical template column to the Profile sheet with the same value …

Re: user roles, to answer your question: I’m setting up the app for a 1-admin use case but there will be varying needs. I have permissions set to public for a couple of reasons. Primarily simplicity, but also: Want to make sure providers can preview all features from a share link without sign-in …

OK, you didn’t mention that the app would be public. Some sort of sign in is required for the app to know who the user is. How would you determine if a user is a provider or an admin and not a customer? At this time, Glide disables per user filtering and visibility if you are not using ‘Public wi…

Thanks for your help @Jeff_Hager ! More advanced permissions will be useful to providers who want to level up basic version of the app. As is, it’s not necessary to benefit from basic features.

Workaround to permission a “switch” component?

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I’m sure I have several posts like this, but here is a basic step by step.

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Workaround to permission a “switch” component?

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