# Adding Items from Choice Component

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-items-from-choice-component/3614>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [January 15, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-items-from-choice-component/3614 "2020-01-15T07:07:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![RyanThomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba8739/32.png) [@RyanThomas](https://community.glideapps.com/u/RyanThomas)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-items-from-choice-component/3614/1 "2020-01-15T07:07:43Z")

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Would be great to be able to add items into your choice component. Right now in my app you have to go back to another tab and add the item if it’s not found in your choice component.

It would be fine if you could save your work, but I have to cancel out of adding an item to then go and add another item that is then selected as a choice in the first item.

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**Author:** ![spencersRus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/spencersrus/32/69_2.png) [@spencersRus](https://community.glideapps.com/u/spencersRus)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-items-from-choice-component/3614/2 "2020-01-15T10:20:45Z")

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Here is a workaround:

> [@Dynamic List Creation Workaround](https://community.glideapps.com/t/dynamic-list-creation-workaround/2761):
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> I have a relative who uses an app I made to keep track of mileage on trips. (Not GPS tracking, she just enters in the destinations and beginning and ending odometer reading.) She has some destinations for beginning and ending, but sometimes wants to add a new one. Just playing around with the choice component. I want my users to choose from a list but also be able to add to the list when they do not see what they want on the list. I have created this as my basis: [https://ojek4.glideapp.io](https://ojek4.glideapp.io) Ad…

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**Author:** ![RyanThomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba8739/32.png) [@RyanThomas](https://community.glideapps.com/u/RyanThomas)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-items-from-choice-component/3614/3 "2020-01-16T07:52:52Z")

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Awesome! Just implemented that into my app. Very easy and totally works. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![chrishoward](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/chrishoward/32/2545_2.png) [@chrishoward](https://community.glideapps.com/u/chrishoward)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 8:52am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-items-from-choice-component/3614/4 "2020-01-16T08:52:49Z")

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An alternative method, @RyanThomas, is to put an “Add” button (using the Form Button component) below the choices component, which you then create a simple form.

Use which ever suits your app.

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**Author:** ![RyanThomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba8739/32.png) [@RyanThomas](https://community.glideapps.com/u/RyanThomas)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 6:18am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-items-from-choice-component/3614/5 "2020-01-23T06:18:30Z")

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I ended up doing this after I accidentally deleted the formula. Actually like it a lot more! Thanks for your solution.