# Simple Google Sheet - writing a row **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Tags:** solved, beginner\ **Created:** [March 18, 2022, 6:16am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-google-sheet-writing-a-row/1789932 "2022-03-18T06:16:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joshmf0s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@joshmf0s](https://community.thunkable.com/u/joshmf0s)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 6:16am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-google-sheet-writing-a-row/1789932/1 "2022-03-18T06:16:52Z")
TLDR: Use Chrome, not Opera, when editing Thunkable. PROBLEM: I’m new to Thunkable (from [bubble.io](http://bubble.io)), trying to add a new row to a Google Sheet. I’ve successfully connected my Google Sheet as a data source, and wrote the code in the image below. Thunkable can read the header row. But when I try to add a row, nothing happens. (I see debug text “begin writing…” , but not “wrote Google Sheet”. The Google Sheet doesn’t change). I demo the problem in a video at [https://www.dropbox.com/s/1f50r0gmbiewp7g/Thunkable%20-%20Opera%202022-03-18%2017-17-27.mp4?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/1f50r0gmbiewp7g/Thunkable%20-%20Opera%202022-03-18%2017-17-27.mp4?dl=0) 1. Am I doing this right? Is there something else I need to do, to push data from Thunkable to Google Sheet? 2. how can I debug this? Is there any way to see if a block is crashed, throwing errors, is frozen or stalled, is waiting for an external call to complete, or has silently failed? Is there an log or any debugging tools? I looked in “Debugging” in Docs and iddn’t see anything like that. 3. is this likely to be a sync problem? or access problem? I refreshed sync in Data Sources. That seems to work fine (when I change header rows in sheets, Thunkable shows the change) 4. any tutorials or guides on writing to google sheets? I didn’t see much on the forum, docs, Youtube (mostly folks using 3rd party APIs instead of Thunkable’s built-in access) I’m about to give up and struggle through learning Firebase, which everyone here seems to prefer, but I prefer to stay with Google Sheets because I know Google Apps Script, and my users already know Sheets. (I have read that I can export Firebase to Google Sheets, but would like to avoid an unnecessary step) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/8/d/8d7c36be3754b995f73a6dad1f0ccc71b8350ce8.png) ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 6:23am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-google-sheet-writing-a-row/1789932/2 "2022-03-18T06:23:18Z")
What happens if you replace the UID value in the create row block with a text string (e.g. “none”)? If that works, then you probably need to check for a null value in your stored variable: > [@Store variable stopping my app](https://community.thunkable.com/t/store-variable-stopping-my-app/1528439/4): > > Stored variables are a little tricky because they start out with a null value. So you have to do when screen opens → if stored variable = null → set stored variable to [some value]. That value can be zero (0) or an empty string ("") or any other value. ---
**Author:** ![joshmf0s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@joshmf0s](https://community.thunkable.com/u/joshmf0s)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 7:06am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-google-sheet-writing-a-row/1789932/3 "2022-03-18T07:06:21Z")
Thanks for suggesting something. I replaced the stored variable block with a “none” text block, and it still didn’t work. Any other suggestions? Any thoughts on my question #2 about debugging? or #4, on existing tutorials for using create row to write to Google Sheets? ---
**Author:** ![joshmf0s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@joshmf0s](https://community.thunkable.com/u/joshmf0s)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 7:37am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-google-sheet-writing-a-row/1789932/4 "2022-03-18T07:37:08Z")
I tried it in Chrome, on a hunch, and it worked! So, I think Opera is not fully supported. I hope that goes on a FAQ somewhere, if it’s correct. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 7:37am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-google-sheet-writing-a-row/1789932/5 "2022-06-16T07:37:22Z")
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