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AndrewFry's avatar
AndrewFry
Qrew Assistant Captain
6 years ago

Automation: Not able to select Type Value as source

Normally I would have an option to select my source as "Type a value". But for some reason it doesn't exist for this field selection. The field is a plain text field. I am a similar a...
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AndrewFry's avatar
AndrewFry
Qrew Assistant Captain
6 years ago
If I remember correctly, it used to be a multiple choice text field, but then was changed to a single text field.

If I am understanding you correctly, does that mean that I will have to remove the current field from the table, create a brand new one of the same name, but ensure that it starts off as a single text field?

Thanks for your input Evan!

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Andrew
andrew.fry25@gmail.com
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EvanMartinez's avatar
EvanMartinez
Moderator
6 years ago
Hi Andrew,

I don't think it should require that to my knowledge, I was just curious since that is the option. Is this a new step being added to an existing automation that might have been created before the change happen or is this a totally new automation? If you can't get the right thing to show up for you and the field is now changed over to just a standard text input field I would suggest putting in a case with our Care team and letting them know what you are running into. That way they can take a look at the behavior and we can see if something is causing that field to be stuck in an old configuration.

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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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  • AndrewFry's avatar
    AndrewFry
    Qrew Assistant Captain
    6 years ago
    Thanks for the clarification Evan.

    The change from multi text to single text happened a while ago. The automation is new, just created yesterday.

    I have opened up a customer care case and am corresponding with them.

    Hopefully we can figure out what is going on.

    Thanks again!

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    Andrew
    andrew.fry25@gmail.com
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    • AndrewFry's avatar
      AndrewFry
      Qrew Assistant Captain
      6 years ago
      Just wanted to provide an update.

      The customer care case was taking too long. Two nights to acknowledge the request.

      I figured a fix to it. I didn't figure out why the field was acting that way.

      My solution was to simply create a new text field and painstakingly go through each report, URL field, automation, web hook, etc., and change out the old field with the new field.

      The Usage tab of the fields really came in handy to identify where each field is being used and how.

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      Andrew
      andrew.fry25@gmail.com
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