Hi all! I’m conducting a survey that includes a multiple-select field. Has anyone devised a formula or some other clever way to transform multiple-select data into single-select fields (toy example below). I came up with a way of doing it in Excel and then pasting it back into Airtable, but I’m wondering if there is a more elegant approach (other than having the fields be single-select to start out with, which makes for a sub-optimal survey experience). Thanks!
Is this something you will regularly need to do, or just once when you import your data?
Is this something you will regularly need to do, or just once when you import your data?
I only need to do it once for each survey response, but there are a lot of responses and they will be coming in over a long time period during which I’d like to keep the second table updated.
For context, the purpose of the second table is to be able to have a view of all the respondents grouped by A, B, and C. Grouping by the multiple select field puts each combination into a separate group.
Hmm… I’m sure that @Kamille_Parks will come up with a clever solution for this, but I use Make.com for everything, so that’s what I would personally use for this.
When a new record is created, I would have a Make scenario loop through the array of multi-select options, and then create individual records in your junction table for each unique combination of name & option.
In Make, it could be setup as simply as this, but there are other ways of setting this up as well:
This is what the iterator module would look like — this is how you loop through the multi-select field:
Is this something you will regularly need to do, or just once when you import your data?
@Kamille_Parks And here I was so sure that if you posted, you’d recommend having a two table system.
@Kamille_Parks And here I was so sure that if you posted, you’d recommend having a two table system.
That is normally my MO, but my thinking here was that if this is just a one -time data import its probably just one table. If you regularly need to split the records apart it would be a two-table setup.
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