# Table refresh rate

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/table-refresh-rate/5219>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** apps, best-practices\
**Created:** [May 11, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/table-refresh-rate/5219 "2022-05-11T18:36:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![safe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@safe](https://community.tulip.co/u/safe)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/table-refresh-rate/5219/1 "2022-05-11T18:36:32Z")

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Hello Team,

I have a step that contains some tables showing different kinds of information using queries. One table showing only records with a date later than the current date keeps refreshing and this visually bothers the user, I believe - please, correct me if I’m mistaken - it blinks every second because the query checks again after every second (smallest Unit of time in Tulip ?). Whereas, the other table which contains only a string comparison query doesn’t blink at all.

Is there a way to decrease the refresh rate (One blink/refresh every 30 seconds instead of every second), or ideally stop seeing the blinking ?

Best regards,  
Safouane

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**Author:** ![Pete\_Hartnett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/pete_hartnett/32/3678_2.png) [@Pete\_Hartnett](https://community.tulip.co/u/Pete_Hartnett)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/table-refresh-rate/5219/2 "2022-05-11T19:34:33Z")

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Hey @safe

You’re totally right. The process of actually pulling the query takes a fraction of a second, so the table will flash as it reloads. Queries will always automatically run when their filters change, but what we can do is filter on a time variable that we update less frequently than every second. To implement this, I would:

1. On step enter, store the current time to a variable (I will call it filter\_time)  

2. Filter the table by this variable, as opposed to app info\>current date and time  

3. Add a timer trigger, set it to run every 30 seconds, and have it store the current date and time to the filter\_time variable. When this trigger runs the query will update.  

Does this make sense?  
Pete

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**Author:** ![safe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@safe](https://community.tulip.co/u/safe)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/table-refresh-rate/5219/3 "2022-05-12T16:02:04Z")

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Hi @Pete_Hartnett,  
Thank you for the great workaround. It worked perfectly!