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Has there been an update to Make multiple choices from a drop down list?

  • January 30, 2013
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Has there been an update to Make multiple choices from a drop down list?
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  • Quickbase Alumni
  • January 30, 2013
Huh?  Don't understand the question.

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  • Quickbase Alumni
  • January 30, 2013
I want to make multiple choices on a drop down list, is this feature available yet?

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  • Quickbase Alumni
  • January 30, 2013
There has always been a field type called text - Multiple choice.  So is that all you are looking for.  Or go to any text field and edit the field properties to make it a multiple choice field.  Or maybe we are not understanding the question as you are asking if its available "yet".

KeithJusas
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  • Quickbase Alumni
  • January 30, 2013
I believe Christie wants to be able to select more that one choice from a multiple choice field, is that correct?

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  • Quickbase Alumni
  • January 30, 2013
No. You cannot make multiple selections. The best you can do is to have a series of separate checkboxes where the users check off say [Orange] [Red] and [Blue] and then display that back in a formula text field such as
List(",",
IF([orange],"Orange"),
IF([red],"Red"),
IF([blue],"Blue"))

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  • Quickbase Alumni
  • January 30, 2013
This is what I was asking sorry if I was unclear.

  • Quickbase Alumni
  • February 13, 2013
woul dlove to see the muliple options also

  • Quickbase Alumni
  • March 5, 2013
No, I dont think there is any option to select multiple answers from a drop down.

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  • Quickbase Alumni
  • March 11, 2013
In general a multiple-choice field is where a user selects only ONE of the options; not "check all that apply", which is the approach you are trying to achieve.  Mark's solution is the recommended way of handling "check all that apply" situations in QuickBase

  • Quickbase Alumni
  • March 11, 2013
I'd also love to see a "check all that apply" field option created in the future.  While I've made the multiple, separate checkbox fields work for us, they are exactly that, separate fields.  It creates issues sometimes with reporting, space management, etc.

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  • Quickbase Alumni
  • March 11, 2013
That's why you then build a list field which displays the values of the checkboxes in a single field either separated by comma's "," or by new lines "/n"

  • Quickbase Alumni
  • November 30, 2018
I found that changing the field type to Multi-select Text allows users select multiple options from a list.