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I'm trying to use the options from a single select field as an 'input' selection in my script. I'm not sure if Airtable allows this. So far I have:

 

let selectTable = base.getTable("Courses");

let selectField = selectTable.getField('School Year');

let schoolYears = selectField.options.choices;



console.log(schoolYears)

 

Which provides 

Then I make an array from just the names:

 

let yearNames = schoolYears.map(record => ({name: record.name}))



console.log(yearNames)

 

Which gives:

I'd like to then use those choices as an input:

 

let selectYear = await input.buttonsAsync('Pick a year', [yearNames]);

 

But this gives an error that you need a string. 

Would this be possible to use? It seems to want a full object literal list and not a variable like this.

 

Try this:

let selectTable = base.getTable("Courses");

let selectField = selectTable.getField('School Year');

let schoolYears = selectField.options.choices;



let yearNames = schoolYears.map(x => {

return {label: x.name, value: x.name}

})



let selectYear = await input.buttonsAsync('Pick a year', yearNames);

Here's a link to the documentation for the expected format for buttonAsync: https://airtable.com/developers/scripting/api/input#buttons-async

Excellent! Thank you.

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