# Global Announcements with User Tracking (copyable) **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Showcase\ **Created:** [February 25, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/global-announcements-with-user-tracking-copyable/23422 "2021-02-25T14:46:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/global-announcements-with-user-tracking-copyable/23422/12 "2021-04-15T13:20:32Z")
> [@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 double-edged sword. Regex is incredibly powerful, but if you don’t know what you’re doing it’s very easy to write regular expressions that become huge resource hogs. I can imagine folks going to town with regex in the GDE, and then wondering why their apps are grinding to a halt. So maybe not such a good idea. But vanilla string functions like left(), right(), substr(), etc… yes please! --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/global-announcements-with-user-tracking-copyable/23422)._