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Multiselect list some options grayed out and italicized

  • January 10, 2021
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I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I'm stuck. 

I have a "Cases" table. Many other tables/forms pull from/reference this table using either one-to-many or many-to-many relationships. 

I recently added three new cases. But in some tables these cases appear grayed out and italicized, but in others they are selectable. It seems that in single-select fields they appear as normal and are selectable but in multiselect fields they are gray, italicized, and not selectable. 

Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this?


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Paul Easton
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  • BlakeHarrison
  • Quickbase Alumni
  • January 10, 2021
I'm not certain I understand. You said that you're using relationships to reference these records, but then you also mention having them in a Multi-select field, which isn't possible with a relationship. Can you provide a little more explanation about the structure of your app?

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Blake Harrison
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DataBlender - Quick Base Solution Provider
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  • Denin
  • Quickbase Alumni
  • December 22, 2025

I encountered the "Multiselect list some options grayed out and italicized" issue when setting the multi-select field values to be from a field in another table, unrelated to the relationship issues mentioned above. It's related to the length of each multi-select option.

Although you can set the multi-select values to be from another field, no single option in a multi-select can be longer than 100 characters. So I used a formula to get the values and abridge them to 100 characters or less, now it works fine.

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