# How keep choice components in edit screen?

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-keep-choice-components-in-edit-screen/12648>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [July 17, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-keep-choice-components-in-edit-screen/12648 "2020-07-17T08:53:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Rodrigo\_Serpa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rodrigo_serpa/32/8206_2.png) [@Rodrigo\_Serpa](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rodrigo_Serpa)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-keep-choice-components-in-edit-screen/12648/1 "2020-07-17T08:53:10Z")

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Hello everybody,  
In the edit screen, all the “choice components” change to “entry fields”.  
The problem is that I don’t want to leave the possibility to enter any value in these fields…  
Is there a way to keep the choice component on the edit screen?  
Or any other ideas for that?  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-keep-choice-components-in-edit-screen/12648/2 "2020-07-17T08:58:24Z")

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> [@Rodrigo\_Serpa](#):
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> In the edit screen, all the “choice components” change to “entry fields”.

It’s just the initial automatically generated component, you can delete that and add a choice component pointing to that column.

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**Author:** ![Rodrigo\_Serpa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rodrigo_serpa/32/8206_2.png) [@Rodrigo\_Serpa](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Rodrigo_Serpa)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-keep-choice-components-in-edit-screen/12648/3 "2020-07-17T09:53:36Z")

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Oh my God, how naive I was … 😁  
Thanks @ThinhDinh!

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**Author:** ![Hallsway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/91b2a8/32.png) [@Hallsway](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Hallsway)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-keep-choice-components-in-edit-screen/12648/4 "2025-04-24T18:37:16Z")

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I get the choice components to stay on the edit screen, but not the Add item screen.

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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:** [April 24, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-keep-choice-components-in-edit-screen/12648/5 "2025-04-24T18:56:20Z")

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Let’s stick to one thread since this one is 5 years old.

> [@Not keeping my changes](https://community.glideapps.com/t/not-keeping-my-changes/81523):
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> My add form keeps losing the way I set it up. I change the text entries to choice components, they stay for a bit, then go back to the text entries. How do I get to stay?

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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:** [April 24, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-keep-choice-components-in-edit-screen/12648/6 "2025-04-24T18:56:24Z")

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