In the interest of some kind of data normalization and using key links in your tables/sheets it would be nice to display pretty text for the choice dropdown but save a key value to the database/sheet. This is more in line with how it is implemented in HTML which is what is ultimately driving things…

I ran into scenarios where I’ve wanted this. Can’t think of any good ones of the top of my head. Definitely something I’m accustomed to as a web developer.

@david This could be incorporated into a Pro Choice component. You could also add to it the Search ability that others are asking for. So you would have a basic Choice component and then a Pro Choice component. As for a use case for the key pairs. By saving off the key instead of the text, it wo…

@david I just thought of another feature that could be considered for this “Pro - Choice Component”. Allow for nested choices. Meaning once a choice is selected, as second list of choices would appear based on the prior chosen one. In other words, behind the scenes it would filter the next list o…

I would love this capability. Having internal ids that are stable over time but presentable names for users would be great.

I’m continuing here from the UUID thread. I would love a hidden Value along with the visible Item in the choice list (ahem…along with per user data…ahem). But in the meantime, once a record is written, I think you could always use a lookup column or a vlookup in the sheet to get the associated und…

The addition of Per User Data for the choice component is huge and helps me progress a little bit on a couple of side projects. Now individual users can create their own values for a choice component. I’d like to bump this thread now because I’m trying to work on a gas logging app. The app allows…

Yes, +1 to this request. I did a lot of searching and testing before realizing this wasn’t possible. My use case is identical to Jeff’s and this is a frustrating limitation.

Here here. I’m currently testing my app with a lot of dummy content that will change. So some of my choice components send data currently that won’t be the final data in the app. The ID for that particular row of course will stay the same even when I reboot the app with the real content. But I can’t…

Choice Component - allow key display pairs

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pspeter3 September 25, 2019, 10:10pm 5

I think it would also be useful for Unique ID Special Value. I hope that it is not a pro component because I feel like it would discourage relationship editing.

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Choice Component - allow key display pairs

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