# Thread data

> This page is about FlutterFlow (the app builder you use by describing your app), not FlutterFlow Studio.

URL: https://docs.flutterflow.io/ffx/thread-data

Try records on a thread's Data tab, keep the ones you want for new threads, bring in newer starter data, and see what new threads start with.

Use a [thread](https://docs.flutterflow.io/ffx/glossary#thread)'s **Data** tab to try records in [this thread's data](https://docs.flutterflow.io/ffx/glossary#this-threads-data) without changing your app's [live data](https://docs.flutterflow.io/ffx/glossary#live-data), and to choose which of them every new thread starts with.

The **Data** tab appears when your app has a table or sign-in. Only the person who started the thread can change its data, and only until the thread is pushed.

## Open thread data {#open-the-data-tab}

To see this thread's data, open the thread and select the **Data** tab. Each new thread starts with its own copy of your [starter data](https://docs.flutterflow.io/ffx/glossary#starter-data), and changes that you make here stay in this thread.

Under **Records**, each table shows how many rows it has, such as **4 rows · 2 new here**. A table that the thread added shows **New table**. If the app has sign-in, **Accounts** lists the thread's test accounts. For more about test accounts, see [Test sign-in](https://docs.flutterflow.io/ffx/test-sign-in).

## Change records {#change-records}

To add, edit, or delete a record in this thread's data:

1. Under **Records**, select the table.
2. Do one of the following:
   - **Add a record:** Click the table's **Add** button, such as **Add expense**. Fill in the fields, and then click the **Add** button in the form, such as **Add expense**.
   - **Edit a record:** Select the record, change its fields, and then click **Save**. To put back the earlier values, click **Undo** while it appears.
   - **Delete a record:** Select the record, click the **Delete** button for it, such as **Delete expense**, and then confirm with **Delete**.

The record's form starts with **This thread’s data.**, so you can tell it apart from a record in **Backend**. Saving in a thread never changes your app's live data. To change live data, see [Records](https://docs.flutterflow.io/ffx/records).

## See what changed {#new-here-changed-here}

Each record and account in this thread's data shows where it came from:

- **New here:** the item was added in this thread.
- **Changed here:** the item came from your starter data and was edited in this thread.
- No label: the item is as your starter data has it.

A table's page also totals them under the list, such as **2 from your starter data · 1 new here**. Items that the agent adds to or changes in the thread's starter data are marked the same way.

<Mock name="thread-data-table" alt="A table on a thread's Data tab, with one row marked New here and one marked Changed here, and the footnote under the list." />

## Keep a record for new threads {#keep-for-new-threads}

New threads start with your starter data, not with what you add or change in one thread. To make every new thread start with a record or an account from this thread:

1. Open the item on the thread's **Data** tab. **Keep for new threads** appears on items marked **New here** or **Changed here**.
2. Turn on **Keep for new threads**.
3. [Push the thread](https://docs.flutterflow.io/ffx/push) to your app.

After the push, new threads start with the item. To add a new record or account and keep it in one step, turn on **Keep for new threads** in its form before you add it.

For how starter data reaches your app's live data, see [Live, thread and starter data](https://docs.flutterflow.io/ffx/data-copies#how-data-moves).

## Get newer starter data {#update-starter-data}

If your starter data changes after you start a thread, for example because another thread kept items and was pushed, the thread's creator sees a note on its **Data** tab: **Your starter data changed since this thread started**, with the number of updates.

To bring the newer starter data into the thread, click **Update**. Items that you added or changed in this thread stay as you left them.

## Starter data {#starter-data-page}

To see your starter data, open **Backend** and select **Starter data**. The page shows the accounts and records that every new thread starts with. Under **Records**, each table lists how many starter rows it has and names the first few.

To see a table's starter rows, select the table. From there, **See** followed by the table name, such as **See Expenses in your app**, opens the table's live records.

You can't edit starter data on this page. To change it, change the items in a thread, turn on **Keep for new threads**, and push the thread.

## Troubleshooting {#if-something-goes-wrong}

- [Thread records aren't in your app or on a share link](https://docs.flutterflow.io/ffx/troubleshoot-data#thread-records-missing)
- [Changing starter data didn't change live records](https://docs.flutterflow.io/ffx/troubleshoot-data#starter-records-not-live)