I haven’t used the T() function before. I can see why it might seem useless when you already know what’s coming from a given field. Based on that, my first thought was that it can help you determine the data type when you don’t immediately know what you’re collecting from a field.

However that raised another question: if you’ve designed your base carefully, when would you not know what data a field is sending? Even with a formula field, I want to design formulas to create specific output. Even when there are multiple possible options from a formula, I always know what those are, so I already know if it’s text or not.

Then again, there’s the ever-mysterious lookup field. Sometimes it returns a single value (text or otherwise), but most of the time it returns an array. I suppose that T() could be used as a quick troubleshooting test to see what’s coming from a lookup while you’re setting up a base and expecting text from that field. But once that’s figured out, I’d likely remove T() and go on with the setup. I’m struggling to think of when I might want to actually leave it in a formula.

Thanks so much for your brainstorming ideas on this, @Justin_Barrett!

That’s an interesting idea about using T() as a quick troubleshooting test to see what sort of values you’re getting from a lookup field. Although, like you said, once you figure it out, you probably wouldn’t need to use T() anymore.

Thanks!