Hi team, as per the subject, I have a small project I am working on for myself as a learning exercise (it’s a personal recipes database, and am trying to set it up to find any matches on rows that match a certain string - ie. looking for an ingredient, etc). In the project, I have a Google Sheets da…

I did just notice when I referred back to this thread that I was using as a reference when I went for the specific row #, rather than trying to find an ID… and I noticed that I had a standard text value in there rather than an actual value block. However, I’ve updated it, and it’s still not writing…

This works for me so I think there may be a problem with your Google Sheet not being synced in Thunkable. This can happen if you change the name of a column header or add/remove columns. And no, it doesn’t matter if the row id is a text string or numeric value. [image] Can you update the value in…

Thanks for the confirmation that it SHOULD work! That’s always a good start knowing that you’re at least on the right track lol. I had a look, tried simply writing a fixed value, which didn’t work. So then I added a create row call on a different table, just to test it out - and THAT didn’t write, …

Worked around it this way - check to see if there’s an entry in the table… if there is, update it. If there isn’t, create it: [image]

Failing to write to a specific cell in a Google Sheets data source

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grinkingr3yr6z August 31, 2024, 4:48am 5

Oh!! I just found the answer, I think. Got a good hit on the “related topics” at the bottom this time around. No idea why it didn’t show this one up earlier lol.

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Failing to write to a specific cell in a Google Sheets data source

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