In Airtable I have a multiple select column. It is impossible to display the content of this column in any component. Is it a Glide limitation ? Is there a workaround ? [CleanShot20220802001514] [CleanShot20220802001453]

I can’t see those multiple select fields in Glide. I can select that field as a Filter though.

So is it in the data editor? Can you show a screenshot of the table in the data editor? When you say that you can’t see it in glide, that’s kind of vague. Does that mean you can’t see it on the front end designer or you can’t see it in the table in glide’s data editor. Since you say that you can…

OK, so the Type of Programs column is the multi select column you are trying to work with? That is definitely an array column and it is definitely coming into glide from airtable. Now that we’ve established that, what exactly do you want to do with the values? If it’s something as simple as displ…

I would like the values in the column displayed in the cards list as well as in the details view. Thanks for your help.

If you just want to display it, then add a Joined List column, point it to your array column, and then you will have a single value that you can use for your cards list and the detail screen. The default delimiter is a comma, but you can change it to anything you want, or simply a space character.

I’m new to Glide, so this will take me some time to understand and figure out. Is there a written resource I can reference? Also, do I do this in Glide or Airtable? If there are new entries in Airtable, will they automatically be converted to the joined list column?

You do it in Glide. [image] Glide Docs Welcome to Glide Docs, a steadily growing collection of articles and videos on how to use Glide. We can’t wait to see what you build! The images in the doc are bit out of date, but the concept hasn’t changed. Just add a…

Thank you all for your help and contributions. I am new to Glide too, as @padthai2go , and that’s why I initially faced that problem. I finally came up with 2 solutions, one inside Glide and the other one in Airtable: As @Jeff_Hager explained, a Joined List column will convert the array to a sin…

Late answer but the multi-select column from Airtable appears correctly in Glide data editor [CleanShot20220807133114] It’s just that there is no component that deal with it directly in Glide layouts. It requires a workaround.

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Jeff_Hager April 12, 2023, 11:50am 32

I don’t have a solution for this, especially with multi-select, but I suspect this is the issue. Glide sees an array and normally you can’t write to an array. Things get really weird when you try to make Glide work with columns that are highly specific to Airtable and not any of the other types of databases.

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