# Choice component in a form write to a relation column

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-component-in-a-form-write-to-a-relation-column/68267>\
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**Created:** [November 30, 2023, 7:23am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-component-in-a-form-write-to-a-relation-column/68267 "2023-11-30T07:23:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/abdo/32/36540_2.png) [@abdo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abdo)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 7:23am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-component-in-a-form-write-to-a-relation-column/68267/1 "2023-11-30T07:23:09Z")

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Just wondering what are the benefits of writing a choice component in a form directly into a relation column?  
Instead of writing into the basic column (ID) and then the computed column relation will return the related row

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**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:** [November 30, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-component-in-a-form-write-to-a-relation-column/68267/2 "2023-11-30T12:36:30Z")

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Mostly I think it’s to benefit Airtable users so they can can write to Airtable linked record columns. I haven’t really understood any reason why you would want to write to normal relation columns.