# Array Column as options in a choice component?

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/array-column-as-options-in-a-choice-component/11108
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [June 19, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/array-column-as-options-in-a-choice-component/11108 "2020-06-19T01:13:04Z")
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### Author: ![Rasha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rasha/32/4585_2.png) [@Rasha](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rasha)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/array-column-as-options-in-a-choice-component/11108/22 "2020-08-02T04:06:21Z")

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Hey @Mark - I put together an app to illustrate the challenges, redundancies, and extra processing that can be eliminated by having an array column for the choice component.

The app is a simple list of products in 3 different sizes: [https://arraycolumn.glideapp.io/](https://arraycolumn.glideapp.io/)

Two scenarios. The first speaks to the current state of affairs. The second borrows from a [workaround](https://community.glideapps.com/t/solved-dynamic-product-variants-in-choice-component/12344) introduced by @Jeff_Hager and @ThinhDinh. It may be suitable for a vendor with a limited product catalog but doesn’t scale.

Time/effort spent working around this simple limitation is rather high and it has cascading effects. If there’s a way to achieve that workaround within the data editor, I’d like to know. Otherwise, can you suggest something more efficient if an array column for choice is not a feature Glide would consider valuable?

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