# Adding a "flashing" feature to a message?

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-flashing-feature-to-a-message/3610>\
**Category:** Support, Troubleshooting, & Help\
**Tags:** apps\
**Created:** [September 22, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-flashing-feature-to-a-message/3610 "2021-09-22T04:40:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![mattsaun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/mattsaun/32/4572_2.png) [@mattsaun](https://community.tulip.co/u/mattsaun)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-flashing-feature-to-a-message/3610/1 "2021-09-22T04:40:19Z")

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hey! Just wondering how I would go about adding a feature that makes my message flash at the user to make it more evident when showing what they currently have selected? Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![gio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/gio/32/82_2.png) [@gio](https://community.tulip.co/u/gio)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 11:31am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-flashing-feature-to-a-message/3610/2 "2021-09-22T11:31:57Z")

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hello @mattsaun, welcome to the Tulip Community!! it would be great if you could introduce yourself here: [Welcome to the Community, let's meet!](https://community.tulip.co/t/welcome-to-the-community-lets-meet/738)!

regarding your question, you could add a Timer Trigger that stores different colors in a Color Variable that you then display behind the Variable that the User selects. a Trigger like this will work well:

 ![Screen Shot 8](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/b/b6bb495940ae1c494cb206e8cb84f03ffbf77d20.jpeg)  
App Variables:  
 ![Screen Shot 9](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/1/1a4a9cc085acc18e692f1179d2fa7ff147621300.jpeg)

this will be the resulting App, with the color changing every 1 second:

 ![Screen Shot 7](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/6/6f78de87ab85d4e4ba1346512191f074798a2df7.jpeg)  
 ![Screen Shot 6](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/6/6424e3757d4285a7992de5ee2df9c21ff7a449cb.jpeg)

does this help you in what you’re attempting to build?? let us know!!

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**Author:** ![mattsaun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/mattsaun/32/4572_2.png) [@mattsaun](https://community.tulip.co/u/mattsaun)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-flashing-feature-to-a-message/3610/3 "2021-09-22T12:36:26Z")

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Thanks a million @gio! This helps me out a tonne!

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**Author:** ![gio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/gio/32/82_2.png) [@gio](https://community.tulip.co/u/gio)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-flashing-feature-to-a-message/3610/4 "2021-09-22T12:37:52Z")

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happy to hear it @mattsaun, let us know if you have any other questions!!

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**Author:** ![sackley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/sackley/32/229_2.png) [@sackley](https://community.tulip.co/u/sackley)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-flashing-feature-to-a-message/3610/5 "2021-09-23T23:39:22Z")

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Another option would be to store your message into a variable and then use the ‘Blink’ customization option on the variable

[https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/2/2cdf5c65a00050f421d4c584e5faaadc958ff4f3.mov](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/2/2cdf5c65a00050f421d4c584e5faaadc958ff4f3.mov)

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**Author:** ![mattsaun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/mattsaun/32/4572_2.png) [@mattsaun](https://community.tulip.co/u/mattsaun)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/adding-a-flashing-feature-to-a-message/3610/6 "2021-09-24T04:30:15Z")

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Thanks Sarah, this way also works just as well. The messages I wanted blinking are already variables that display a table record so this was super easy. Thanks heaps!