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Hi everyone!


There’s a seemingly basic problem that’s driving me crazy: I have an automation that triggers a script to create a few records. When creating these records, I need to set the value of a single-select field. It works well when I assign a basic string to the variable, but fails when I use getCellValueAsString ! Anything I’m missing? (console.log on the result of getCellValueAsString shows the correct result and typeOf on the variable shows indeed “string”)


let tableMapOuvrages = base.getTable("Map ouvrages");

let tableTaches = base.getTable("Taches");

let inputConfig = input.config(); //get the variables from previous steps



let mapOuvrages = await tableMapOuvrages.selectRecordsAsync({

    fields:  "Ouvrage","Groupe ouvrage"]

});



for (let itemInMap of mapOuvrages.records) {



    let basicString = "Livraison menuiseries";

    let stringOuvrage = itemInMap.getCellValueAsString("Ouvrage");

    console.log(stringOuvrage ); // this shows "Livraison menuiseries"

    console.log(stringOuvrage ); // this shows "string"

    

    // the "temp" field below is a single-select

    let tache = await tableTaches.createRecordAsync({

    "temp": {name: basicString }  // This version works

    // "temp": {name: stringOuvrage }  // this version doesn't work !

    

    });



}

Welcome to the Airtable community!


What error messages do you get when it does not work? Can you share a screen shot?


Could one of the single select choices have a hidden trailing space or other hard-to-see difference?

What happens if you add these lines …




console.log(stringOuvrage );

console.log(basicString );

if (basicString === stringOuvrage) {

  console.log(`${stringOuvrage} and ${basicString} match`)

} else {

  console.log(`${stringOuvrage} and ${basicString} do NOT match`)

}

The script you posted doesn’t match you description of what is happening. The script you posted is missing the type of.

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