# Display which users are currently online
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-which-users-are-currently-online/67604
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [November 7, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-which-users-are-currently-online/67604 "2023-11-07T22:00:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Chris\_Jones](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Chris_Jones)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-which-users-are-currently-online/67604/1 "2023-11-07T22:00:39Z")
I am building a CRM for our company and interaction/communication with other employees of our company is central to our CRM approach. Many employees work remotely. Therefore I would like to add functionality similar to what Google sheets has, where you can see who else is currently online. I have read about the timestamp options, but I don’t think that is a good solution because it is based on a button click, which would mean using a button the user is most likely to click. If I implemented this it would be on buttons that are used VERY frequently. That brings up update usage concerns for me. I was thinking a Javascript might be a good solution, but I don’t know anywhere near enough to try that. Any suggestions? Javascript or otherwise?
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-which-users-are-currently-online/67604/2 "2023-11-07T23:37:19Z")
A Javascript column would only calculate the “value” on each user’s device. Unless you have a way to write the result of that column somewhere in the database, to a basic column so everyone can see it, I think it doesn’t make a difference.
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### Author:  [@Chris\_Jones](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Chris_Jones)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/display-which-users-are-currently-online/67604/3 "2023-11-08T00:02:56Z")
Ah, I see. Thank you @ThinhDinh! At least now I know that Javascript is not the answer.