Populating Single Select

[Thomas_Carey]

Trying to figure the basics of Airtable. At this point i just want to populate a Single Select field in Table A with information in a field from Table B. Doable?
Thank you for our time ~ Tom

[Moe]

With this extension, you can automatically copy a lookup field value and paste in a single select field.

miniExtensions

Copy Value from One Airtable Field to Another - miniExtensions

Automate copying a value from one field to another on Airtable, for any field type! Filter which records this runs on by view. Supports scheduling and webhooks!

[MattF]

I’m also looking for a way to do this - I simply want to populate a single select in Table A with options from a field in Table B. Surely this is possible?

[Aleks_K]

The approach suggested in May 2017 works for me. It allowed me to choose a value from using the lookup list. In my case I used linked “Shop” table for the Shop field in “Purchase” table

[Patrick_Hart]

Seriously how is it possible that a “relational database” doesn’t have this ability?? I’m leaving this app, far too frustrating to be useful.

[Gaston_Viau]

Airtable, this is a basic need. @Emmett_Nicholas your response in May 17 didn´t solve what many are asking here.

Any clue to how this can be solved? I´m leaving the app as well if such an essential need isn´t covered.

[Pratik_Shah]

I guess, I figured it out on how to populate Single Select from existing data.
First, create Single Text column and paste all your data in this column. Once your data is pasted in this column, change the column type to “Single Select”.

[Michael_Yan]

This solved my issue!

[Nikhil_Ranka]

Thanks for the workaround

[Nikhil_Ranka]

@Emmett_Nicholas

Any plans to support populating a Single Select dropdown with values from another a column in another table?

Of course lookups do offer a workaround, but it is more like multi-select.

[Pratik_Shah]

Nikhil_Ranka:

Any plans to support populating a Single Select dropdown with values from another a column in another table?

In similar way I mentioned above, you can populate single select column from linked and looked up records.