# Multiple selections - Attendance record - a selection of students in one entry
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837
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**Created:** [August 23, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837 "2021-08-23T12:51:48Z")
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### Author:  [@Maria\_Etheridge](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Maria_Etheridge)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837/1 "2021-08-23T12:51:48Z")
Hi 🙂 I am new to Glide and not very technical compared to some of you in this supportive group. I just simply want to create my attendance app to be able to do multiple student election in the one entry…
Is this possible?
This is the data I am trying to populate:
Student A - I want to be able to select multiple students
Class - Use Choice
Attendance - Use Switch for yes
How was contact made - Use Choice
Escalated to - Use Switch for yes
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837/2 "2021-08-23T13:04:48Z")
How do you expect it to look like? Do you want a “Select all” function?
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### Author:  [@Maria\_Etheridge](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Maria_Etheridge)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837/3 "2021-08-23T14:08:42Z")
Thakyou so much for your reply 🙂
No I want to be able to select out a list of students, only those that are attending.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837/4 "2021-08-23T23:40:33Z")
I don’t think this is an easy task at all. At the moment you can’t have multiple selections for choice components, you can only “select” multiple rows through an inline checklist, but that boolean won’t get reset once you submit a form, and you have to derive a way to get all “chosen” students into a column.
What do you expect your “Student A” column to look like? If I choose Student A, B, C, D then it will populate the column as “Student A, Student B, Student C, Student D”?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 6:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837/5 "2021-08-24T06:05:39Z")
hmm… I think what @Robert_Petitto is doing [here](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-glide-to-insert-modify-google-sheet-formula/30805/12) looks a lot like what is required?
Not sure if he’ll be releasing that as a template or not…
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837/6 "2021-08-24T10:11:38Z")
I’m about to submit it today in fact! Stay tuned!
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### Author:  [@Maria\_Etheridge](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Maria_Etheridge)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837/7 "2021-08-24T10:12:10Z")
So I first labelled just as “student” but then was experimenting whether several comments student a, student b etc made a difference, which it did not.
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### Author:  [@Maria\_Etheridge](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Maria_Etheridge)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 10:18am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837/8 "2021-08-24T10:18:57Z")
Oh please let me know when you do! I was unable to access the link. You are clearly one smart cookie and really appreciate you sharing your talent.
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### Author:  [@Eric\_Penn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Eric_Penn)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837/9 "2021-08-24T12:24:37Z")
Happy Cake Day! Thank you for all your contributions.
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837/10 "2021-08-24T13:10:42Z")
Teaser Trailer—
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-selections-attendance-record-a-selection-of-students-in-one-entry/30837/11 "2021-08-27T18:48:18Z")
I’m not sure if this will help, but maybe it will provide some inspiration.
> [@Reset Multiple Rows At Once](https://community.glideapps.com/t/reset-multiple-rows-at-once/22211):
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> There have been several requests for people to find a way to clear a value in multiple rows. I was thinking about that and came up with a quick example of a way to handle that. Instead of trying to clear a value in an entire column, I realized we could just change one value on a parent column, load it as a single value in our sheet and then compare that parent value to a column that we set or unset for each row. It’s not about clearing an entire column, it’s about making a value in each row n…