# Fun with Dates **URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/fun-with-dates/21684 **Category:** Project Showcase **Created:** [January 24, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/fun-with-dates/21684 "2021-01-24T20:25:08Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 72
### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager) #### Post date: [January 28, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/fun-with-dates/21684/72 "2021-01-28T19:41:31Z")
Not easily, but if you’re willing to put in some work, this is the only solution I know of that’s contained within Glide and shows a count in real time (Not in add/edit/form mode). > [@Filter visibility by Character Count!](https://community.glideapps.com/t/filter-visibility-by-character-count/20867/4): > > I think I got something here. Not the cleanest solution, but not too bad either. Just takes a little math. Here you can see that column 11 has two rows with text in it. New Column L has a template with the value of 1 in it. New Column J is a template that replaces every letter (and space if you choose) with the number ‘1’. You shouldn’t need to replace any numbers as they are already numbers, but you will probably have to include every letter of the alphabet along with any symbols you would… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/fun-with-dates/21684)._