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Qrew Trainee

6 years ago

Create new records using data from a multi-select field

When I save a record in a table, I would like to take items selected in a multi-select field in that table and create a record for each item selected into another table. I tried an automation but it ...

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LauraThacker

Qrew Captain

You can also use the formula that Mark has provided; and use it to create a formula that can be read by Quick Base as a csv import and leverage the Webhook automation feature to create child-table records with the values from your multi-select text field. This is much cleaner than having 10 separate fields that run on separate automations.

JohnReinagel

Qrew Trainee

6 years ago

I can see how the webhook would be clean, but have never used them. Any good places to see examples of webhooks. I can usually figure things out if I have a good example to work off of.