# How to recieve a data which just saves in airtable and forbid unknown

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**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [December 5, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-recieve-a-data-which-just-saves-in-airtable-and-forbid-unknown/352434 "2019-12-05T15:01:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![BlueWhaleYT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/bluewhaleyt/32/28437_2.png) [@BlueWhaleYT](https://community.thunkable.com/u/BlueWhaleYT)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-recieve-a-data-which-just-saves-in-airtable-and-forbid-unknown/352434/1 "2019-12-05T15:01:22Z")

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Hi there,  
I want to do an action that is receive a data from the airtable spreadsheet.I don’t know how to explain correctly.Let me do it an example.

Assume My Minecraft server involved

- Billy205
- gorjoe

They are both saves in the airtable.

If the user type “Player C” into the text input,that should shows an alert.

else(type Billy205/gorjoe),will do a successful event.

This is what I currently doing

 ![IMG_20191205_224742](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/8/a/8a4d0302044bf3dd11a22ce08a9ffcc674d505e4.jpeg)

 ![airtable](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/8/08b25ff0d893235a53a890d49c30505f8a3ee4ba.jpeg)

thanks.

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**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-recieve-a-data-which-just-saves-in-airtable-and-forbid-unknown/352434/2 "2019-12-05T16:20:21Z")

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I don’t think you can use an if statement here, you’ll need a for loop to go through all the items in the Column and then use your if statement inside that loop.

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**Author:** ![BlueWhaleYT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/bluewhaleyt/32/28437_2.png) [@BlueWhaleYT](https://community.thunkable.com/u/BlueWhaleYT)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-recieve-a-data-which-just-saves-in-airtable-and-forbid-unknown/352434/3 "2019-12-05T22:22:38Z")

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In fact,how I do it great.thanks.

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**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-recieve-a-data-which-just-saves-in-airtable-and-forbid-unknown/352434/4 "2019-12-06T08:34:24Z")

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You wrote an algorithm:

> If the user type “Player C” into the text input,that should shows an alert.

> else(type Billy205/gorjoe),will do a successful event.

Now do it in blocks with help of “if else” bclock.

If x = “Player C”  
alert  
else if (x = Billy205/gorjoe)  
good

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**Author:** ![BlueWhaleYT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/bluewhaleyt/32/28437_2.png) [@BlueWhaleYT](https://community.thunkable.com/u/BlueWhaleYT)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-recieve-a-data-which-just-saves-in-airtable-and-forbid-unknown/352434/5 "2019-12-06T08:46:19Z")

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HI thx for reply.  
The fact is the user will not type “Player C” correctly,they are all doesn’t access unless the name is stored in airtable.

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**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-recieve-a-data-which-just-saves-in-airtable-and-forbid-unknown/352434/6 "2019-12-06T12:08:31Z")

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Then you need to check if the user has entered the correct data that is in the database, then good, if the entered data is not in the database - false.

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-recieve-a-data-which-just-saves-in-airtable-and-forbid-unknown/352434/7 "2024-11-08T11:46:31Z")

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