# User Specific Column - Reset (or set) for all - possible?

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-specific-column-reset-or-set-for-all-possible/55549>\
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**Created:** [December 8, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-specific-column-reset-or-set-for-all-possible/55549 "2022-12-08T10:43:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thoughts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thoughts/32/46790_2.png) [@Thoughts](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-specific-column-reset-or-set-for-all-possible/55549/1 "2022-12-08T10:43:53Z")

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Hello All,  
I created an “Announcement” Feature where an admin can add announcments that appear on the home screen for users.  
When a user taps the announcement it disappears (behind the scene it adds a timestamp to a User Specific Column and I don’t show announcements where this column is not empty).

I want to add an option to for the admins to reset an announcement - meaning that it will be visible again to users. even if they already saw it.

I could create a Reset button that will duplicate the announcement and create a new line with the same data - but I would just prefer to CLEAR VALUES of the user specific column?

Is there a way to do this?

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**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:** [December 8, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-specific-column-reset-or-set-for-all-possible/55549/2 "2022-12-08T10:49:34Z")

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In short, no.

But… here is an alternative option.

- Create an extra basic text type column, and when an Announcement is created, populate this column with a Unique Identifier (UUID).
- Replace your User Specific timestamp column with a User Specific text column.
- As each user reads the announcement, set the User Specific column using the value in the UUID column.
- Your filter then becomes “where UUID is not User Specific Value”
- To do a global reset, simply change the value of the UUID. ie. Set Column Values → UUID → Unique Identifier.

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**Author:** ![Thoughts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thoughts/32/46790_2.png) [@Thoughts](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-specific-column-reset-or-set-for-all-possible/55549/3 "2022-12-08T13:58:53Z")

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Good workaround! Danke

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/user-specific-column-reset-or-set-for-all-possible/55549/4 "2022-12-09T13:59:07Z")

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