# Edit Columns not actually adding columns

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/edit-columns-not-actually-adding-columns/120677>\
**Category:** CRM\
**Tags:** starter\
**Created:** [November 17, 2024, 1:55am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/edit-columns-not-actually-adding-columns/120677 "2024-11-17T01:55:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![petered](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@petered](https://community.hubspot.com/u/petered)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 1:55am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/edit-columns-not-actually-adding-columns/120677/1 "2024-11-17T01:55:20Z")

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I’ve just created a new contact-information property “Requested Pilot by Email”. It’s a checkbox.

I go to my contacts. Add view. Edit Columns. I find “Requested Pilot by Email”. I check it.. It shows up on the right under “Selected Columns”. So far so good. I click apply. It’s not there. No explanation - it just doesn’t show up in the table. If I go to edit columns again, it’s no longer in Selected columns. I can add other columns, just not that one.

Why are my selected columns not actually showing up when I click apply? Is this just a bug in Hubspot?

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**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/edit-columns-not-actually-adding-columns/120677/2 "2024-11-17T06:43:34Z")

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Hi @petered,

I had this issue recently as well; after the creation of a property a column added to a view would simply not appear. The issue resolved itself after a while. In this case, it was a scoring property and I assume that it took a moment for HubSpot to propagate the changes through the CRM before it would display it.

Can you check whether it’s possible now? If not, can you please try another browser / private tab?

Best regards

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**Author:** ![petered](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@petered](https://community.hubspot.com/u/petered)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/edit-columns-not-actually-adding-columns/120677/3 "2024-11-17T16:44:35Z")

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Yep exactly - it started working about half an hour after creating the property, so it looks like the answer is “just wait half an hour or so”.  
So, that’s something to fix. At a minimum an error message saying like “Hey bud, sorry I can’t add some of your columns because some of our servers are telling other servers that the properties you added as columns exist. Just go take a break and come back in around half an hour, it’ll probably work then”