# Portal timer **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Tags:** tutorial\ **Created:** [March 12, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/portal-timer/80691 "2025-03-12T13:06:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/portal-timer/80691/2 "2025-03-12T16:31:31Z")
There is a stopwatch component that you can use by enabling the preview feature in your team settings. Also, @Jeff_Hager made an AI component stopwatch concept. > [@new\_button (Re) Introducing the Stopwatch Component](https://community.glideapps.com/t/re-introducing-the-stopwatch-component/79249/6): > > Here’s my take on it using a custom AI component for a stopwatch, which also includes a countdown timer. There should be only three columns in the table (RowID, JSON, and one experimental to extract duration from the json). The template app seems to be holding on to old columns and I can’t get them to remove when I publish. They aren’t in my copy, but they still exist in the template. Ignore the old unused columns because they were for a previous version of this I did a while back. At this p… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/portal-timer/80691)._