This was inspired by a recent tutorial by @Robert_Petitto (who else? :rofl:) For an app I am currently working on, there is a requirement to support Global Announcements. The basic requirements are: An Administrator can create an announcement and target it at a specific group of users When a user…

Thanks! Curious to know how you would approach this? What I have seems to work okay, but I’m always open to learning better/alternative ways to get things done :slightly_smiling_face:

[image] Darren_Murphy: In my Announcements table, I have a “Read By” column. This is a Basic Text column, but actually contains a joined list of the UserID’s of all users that have read the announcement. This list is built dynamically as each user marks the announcement as read Hi Darren, wha…

[image] Harry_OBrien: Hi Darren, what does this step look like? I am assuming there is a custom action when they “mark as read” but I dont know how to keep adding new values (UserIDs) to a basic text field without overwriting it. When a user taps an announcement, their User ID is written to …

Has anyone ever figured out how to remove a specific chunk of text from a joined list of values? (Assuming that the joined list isn’t being dynamically generated and is a static list that has been written to the sheet already)

Closest I’ve seen was @Jeff_Hager doing a bunch replacements using a blank column. But they were very specific use cases. I’ve yet to see a general solution, and I doubt that it will be possible until we get some string manipulation methods in the GDE. PS. I’d be overjoyed to be proven wrong on thi…

Yeah, I have a pretty non-user friendly method that I am going to try to make this work. String manipulation would be huge!

Could be that @Lucas_Pires has an ace up his sleeve… [image] Add to Array / Remove from Array Feature Requests Soon I’ll post how I use the method to remove from an array

[image] Jaime: Yeah, I have a pretty non-user friendly method that I am going to try to make this work. String manipulation would be huge! Was just thinking about this. I’ve seen that a few people have also asked for Regex capability in the GDE. Whilst this would be awesome, it could be a dou…

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Could be that @Lucas_Pires has an ace up his sleeve…

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