# Create row block not working well from yesterday
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [October 9, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050 "2020-10-09T13:40:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ivan\_Gonzalez](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Ivan_Gonzalez)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/1 "2020-10-09T13:40:30Z")
Hi, I am having problems with data source. Yesterday I noticed the ‘create row’ block is not working well. I used a ‘create row’ block inside a ‘count with’ block but the ‘create row’ block executes only 1 time. Besides, the blocks I put in the ‘do’ space do not execute. Any suggestions ? It seems that after and inside the ‘create row’ block nothing else execute
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/2 "2020-10-09T17:15:49Z")
I’m wondering if you’re trying to create rows too quickly. If you have a “count with” block without any delays, it’s probably way too fast. Can you post a screenshot of those blocks?
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### Author:  [@drted](https://community.thunkable.com/u/drted)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/3 "2020-10-09T18:19:06Z")
can you show us your blocks? It would make troubhleshooting easier.
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### Author:  [@Ivan\_Gonzalez](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Ivan_Gonzalez)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/4 "2020-10-09T22:09:39Z")
2 days ago it was working fine. Now it stopped working, also the blocks that are in the do section in the ‘create row’ block are never executed, not even once. Here the blocks from a simpler project I did to test
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### Author:  [@drted](https://community.thunkable.com/u/drted)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/5 "2020-10-09T22:47:07Z")
[Ivan\_Gonzalez](http://community.thunkable.com/u/Ivan_Gonzalez), I have had a TON of issues similar to the one you are describing. My experience has been that trying to insert into a data source in a loop causes crashes. Period. There is an asyncronicity issue with the Create row block (as [tatiang](http://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang) indicated).
Sometimes it will work. Sometimes it will work mulitple times. But if you loop enough times it will fail.
I’ve tried adding wait loops inside the Create Row block, which helps, but does not resolve the issue.
Because of those issues, I went to Firebase Realtime Database. Of course, you loose the data viewer, but at least you can add/update/delete data reliably.
I’ve also posted in the discussion group an number of solutions including a JSON bound list, a JSON driven scrolling row, combining JSON data with Local DBs, as well as how to extract data in bulk from spreadsheets and load it into screens and JSON hierarchies.
Best of luck and happy thunking!
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### Author:  [@Ivan\_Gonzalez](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Ivan_Gonzalez)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/6 "2020-10-10T00:24:22Z")
I tested the ‘create row’ block without doing any iteration, just run the ‘create row’ block once and the row was created but the blocks within the ‘do’ section were not executed, I think is no a matter of asyncronicity or speed.
I remember that a few weeks ago that happened, that is, the blocks that I added inside or after the ‘delete row’ block were not executed. Then they updated to a new ‘delete all rows’ block and now it does work fine and now the blocks that I add inside the ‘create row’ block don’t execute. Here the blocks of the new test I did
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### Author:  [@drted](https://community.thunkable.com/u/drted)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/7 "2020-10-10T00:45:53Z")
Yikes! Sounds like you should report a bug on GitHub [https://github.com/thunkable/thunkable-issues/issues/new/choose](https://github.com/thunkable/thunkable-issues/issues/new/choose)
What data source are you using? Is it google sheets? If so, I’ve encounter a number of really unpreditable errors, especially when trying to add or delete rows. When I encounter such errors, I’ve found the following strategies helpful:
1. Delete empty rows after your data (yes, potentially thousands of rows)
2. Delete the first and last row
These are all crummy solutions,but sometimes you need to “jiggle the handle”
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/8 "2020-10-10T00:49:19Z")
Have you guys tried recursion instead of a loop?
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### Author:  [@Ivan\_Gonzalez](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Ivan_Gonzalez)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/9 "2020-10-10T01:06:06Z")
I also tried recursion and it did not work, all blocks that are in ‘do’ section and after ‘create row’ block are not executed
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### Author:  [@mmendelow](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mmendelow)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/10 "2020-10-10T12:18:21Z")
I am having the EXACT same issue. My code was working perfectly up until about 2 days ago. I was searching through community to see if anyone else had the same error.
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### Author:  [@maxb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/maxb)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/11 "2020-10-10T14:25:54Z")
> [@Absolute positioning and Data Viewer Custom Layouts](http://community.thunkable.com/t/absolute-positioning-and-data-viewer-custom-layouts/843447/15):
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> There should be a problem in the Create Row block for the data sources; This makes a copy of the airtable database in a local database, unfortunately I can’t use the old local DB component in the new data viewers, I have to use the data sources [ds3] so i used the create row command for the data sources, but instead of creating a copy of the airtable database, it repeats many times only the first row of the DB, and if the data viewer is set to be used with that da…
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/12 "2020-10-11T03:37:19Z")
@Ivan_Gonzalez
> [@Ivan\_Gonzalez](#):
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> I tested the ‘create row’ block without doing any iteration, just run the ‘create row’ block once and the row was created but the blocks within the ‘do’ section were not executed, I think is no a matter of asyncronicity or speed.
I’m having a similar issue. I tried the following blocks:
Function
…Set status label text to “A”
…Create Row
\_\_\_\_do Set status label text to “B”
…Set status label text to “C”
If I run that code, I see “A” but nothing else. So it doesn’t run the blocks in the “do” section of the Create Row block or any blocks after the Create Row block.
I tried adding a Wait 0.3 seconds block after the Create Row block but it doesn’t change anything.
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 3:57am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/13 "2020-10-11T03:57:32Z")
Here’s a small demo. If I click the Add Row button, I’d expect to see “B” or “C” in the status label. But I only see “A”.
> **[Thunkable](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/551a9c7dd159b9bd74a4629c8d9faf73)**
See bug report here: [https://github.com/thunkable/thunkable-issues/issues/699](https://github.com/thunkable/thunkable-issues/issues/699)
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### Author:  [@francabral](https://community.thunkable.com/u/francabral)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/14 "2020-10-11T04:48:53Z")
Hola, estoy teniendo exactamente el mismo problema!!! hace 2 días funcionaba y ahora dejó de funcionar!!!
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### Author:  [@Tommaso](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Tommaso)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/15 "2020-10-11T12:08:22Z")
Hi there,
Same issue here - it seems the system is not able to get the “do” section and it seems, also, that the loop ends after the first item has been added.
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### Author:  [@francabral](https://community.thunkable.com/u/francabral)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/16 "2020-10-11T19:00:47Z")
¡Ay! Parece que todos deberíamos informar del error en GitHub así lo solucionan lo antes posible!!! [https://github.com/thunkable/thunkable-issues/issues/new/choose](https://github.com/thunkable/thunkable-issues/issues/new/choose)
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### Author:  [@athornock](https://community.thunkable.com/u/athornock)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/17 "2020-10-12T23:43:38Z")
It’s broken for me too: [https://x.thunkable.com/copy/d374e71276f69fc84661243410cc838d](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/d374e71276f69fc84661243410cc838d)
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### Author:  [@maxb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/maxb)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/18 "2020-10-13T08:42:12Z")
Adding to the discussion
> [@Absolute positioning and Data Viewer Custom Layouts](http://community.thunkable.com/t/absolute-positioning-and-data-viewer-custom-layouts/843447/18):
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> That’s just cause I decided to change the original picture with a more fitting one created on purpose, it’s not that the problem, picture is wrong,and those blocks work if I use the OLD localDB commands. I think I just found the cause and I hope you can do something about it: Data sources IS SLOW. It might be due to the fact that it pulls every row from the airtable db, I just ‘solved’ one problem I was having, but I can’t wait 1 second for every row of the database, I’m going to add pictures…
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### Author:  [@bilastois](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bilastois)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/19 "2020-10-13T10:29:22Z")
tatiang , i changed you application and it is work
i used list2 instead of datasource for list values in List\_Viewer1
you see change values in the datasource by List\_Viewer1
[https://x.thunkable.com/copy/3f638335c3eeb69dcbc6c712c6f1b691](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/3f638335c3eeb69dcbc6c712c6f1b691)
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/create-row-block-not-working-well-from-yesterday/887050/20 "2020-10-13T17:28:18Z")
@bilastois Which problem were you attempting to fix? The demo I had posted shows that the “do” section of the _create row_ block doesn’t work. But you have nothing in your “do” section…
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