# Slack emulations for admin

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/slack-emulations-for-admin/55330>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [December 2, 2022, 7:28am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slack-emulations-for-admin/55330 "2022-12-02T07:28:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/slack-emulations-for-admin/55330/2 "2022-12-03T00:13:00Z")

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> [@joneseybur](#):
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> How can we create an announcements tab or feature that only admin can post to? I’m using the native chat screen (which we all know is limited I guess) but I’d like a separate place where admins can post a message/chat/topic whatever the correct lingo is and have it notify users via zapier until we get native push.

I guess you just create a new tab, then have a table for admins to write announcements to. On posting a new row to the Announcements table, trigger your Zap to send out notifications, but beware of the number of email addresses you can send to in a single email to not go over the quota.

> [@joneseybur](#):
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> how to display a popup alert message every time the user opens the app so they can see the latest announcement and clicking it will take them to the announcement.

Getting a true pop-up is a bit of a hack with Glide Apps, and not available with Glide Pages. If you want to dive into it with CSS, read this.

> [@Modal window](https://community.glideapps.com/t/modal-window/22907/4):
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> beautifull. too complex for me in term of CSS as I don’t understand it enough so if it breaks I won’t know how to fix it. may I ask about the position and code of the other buttons? the “top” buttin on the bototm left the “modal on/off” buttons how did you shape and position?

> [@joneseybur](#):
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> to have a designated section on the home screen where announcements always are housed at the top of page…and each new announcement replaces the previous one? A see more or read more link will be link to screen.

Looks like it can be done as an inline list, and you make the right filter to show only the newest notifications/unread notifications. Use a user-specific column to determine whether the user has read the announcement or not, once they click on it, set the column to true.

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