# Airtable and multiple selects **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [August 1, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/airtable-and-multiple-selects/45730 "2022-08-01T22:17:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 11:50am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/airtable-and-multiple-selects/45730/32 "2023-04-12T11:50:58Z")
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. > [@Troubles with Edit Form](https://community.glideapps.com/t/troubles-with-edit-form/60389/12): > > Ugg, I’m not an expert on how these things work with Airtable. Normally I would have a separate table that lists all of the status options in separate rows. That separate table would be the source table for the choice component, and then your choice component would write the value to your form destination table. That logic makes sense to me. But it seems that Airtable lets you have different column types that serve dual purposes. In this case, it contains the list of options as well as hold… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/airtable-and-multiple-selects/45730)._