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May 31, 2017 04:38 PM
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

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Aug 24, 2020 03:13 PM
With this extension, you can automatically copy a lookup field value and paste in a single select field.

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Aug 28, 2020 07:02 AM
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?

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Oct 18, 2020 05:29 PM
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

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Nov 21, 2020 04:51 PM
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.

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Feb 04, 2021 06:58 AM
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.

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Apr 01, 2021 09:02 AM
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”.

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Apr 23, 2021 11:38 PM
This solved my issue!

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May 04, 2021 03:52 AM
Thanks for the workaround

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May 04, 2021 03:53 AM
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.

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May 06, 2021 12:25 AM
In similar way I mentioned above, you can populate single select column from linked and looked up records.
