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Paste values into a Select field type

  • January 15, 2016
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I would be helpful if a list of values could be imported or pasted into a Select field rather than having to input each item separately. i.e States

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Copying multiple lines of options into the Select config dialog is a really good idea; I added that to our internal TODO.txt.

In the meantime, there’s a simple workaround:

  1. Create an empty Select column (i.e. with zero options)
  2. Copy the 50 US States into the cell values for for that column. This will automatically create Select options for each new value.

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  • January 16, 2016

Thanks for the suggestion, that works well as a workaround.