# Multiple Texts column now in Public Preview **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Tags:** data-editor, community-update\ **Created:** [April 17, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408 "2025-04-17T20:40:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![idevnva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/idevnva/32/87851_2.png) [@idevnva](https://community.glideapps.com/u/idevnva)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/24 "2025-05-15T18:51:23Z")
I created a copy of the column to check and added two roles for comparison, one works and the other RowID does not work ---
**Author:** ![DJP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/djp/32/62545_2.png) [@DJP](https://community.glideapps.com/u/DJP)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/25 "2025-05-15T18:53:49Z")
Interesting! Are you saying that using the row ID value is not working in any situation? ---
**Author:** ![idevnva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/idevnva/32/87851_2.png) [@idevnva](https://community.glideapps.com/u/idevnva)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/26 "2025-05-15T18:56:22Z")
I’ve checked in other tables now, everything works. But not in this one))) It works where it should ---
**Author:** ![idevnva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/idevnva/32/87851_2.png) [@idevnva](https://community.glideapps.com/u/idevnva)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/27 "2025-05-15T18:57:54Z")
You were right, I checked now, it works everywhere except for one table))) ---
**Author:** ![idevnva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/idevnva/32/87851_2.png) [@idevnva](https://community.glideapps.com/u/idevnva)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/28 "2025-05-15T19:02:07Z")
Hahahaha the problem was different, my colleague also went into the editor, but I was not thrown out and was not thrown out of the editor, so nothing was displayed for me Please excuse me, thank you very much for everything ---
**Author:** ![Pratik\_Shah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pratik_shah/32/12416_2.png) [@Pratik\_Shah](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pratik_Shah)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/29 "2025-05-27T08:55:51Z")
@DJP I am trying to set this new column as Role Column but it is not working in my case. There are two values in Role Column. PM ID (rowID in User table) and Client ID (rowID in Client table). rowID of Client Table does not seem to be working in my case. Below is screenshot from User Table and Role 2 is Role configured in User Profile. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/d/1/d1d5a39d4b602856de3ddd4d6477f601bea912cf.jpeg) Below is screenshot from Client Table but the rows are not highlighted even though `UDiX2T0ZT02S9bdwzw8U3w` is there in Role column. ![image (8)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/f/e/fec2b27ed17ca36c338c73f9193904c9ab7f8605.png) ![image (7)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/a/7/a7931e08e03cc1a134915a6fde62f072d13aded1.png) Can you please help? ---
**Author:** ![Eric\_Penn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/eric_penn/32/73888_2.png) [@Eric\_Penn](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Eric_Penn)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 9:21am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/30 "2025-05-27T09:21:30Z")
In the mean time you could use a server side workflow to set the value of the role column. So the role column would remain basic and you use the workflow to set the value. ![IMG_6443](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/5/8/58a1971444ac47586f616c122e989a9a11a6d841.jpeg) ![IMG_6444](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/a/a/aa06519afb78f58f70a703f393cb00e875b0a25a.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Pratik\_Shah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pratik_shah/32/12416_2.png) [@Pratik\_Shah](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pratik_Shah)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/31 "2025-05-27T09:40:28Z")
I am using API calls to set Role value which seems to be working fine. The only problem is, it does not read rows while I have rowIDs of two tables set as Role. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 9:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/32 "2025-05-27T09:53:42Z")
There is also a Slack thread on this one. As far as I can see, there is nothing wrong with his setup. I did a test with a similar setup just to be sure, and it works perfectly as expected. So something is not quite right with his App, it seems. But I can’t see what it is… ---
**Author:** ![Pratik\_Shah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/pratik_shah/32/12416_2.png) [@Pratik\_Shah](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pratik_Shah)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/33 "2025-05-27T10:31:25Z")
Thank you. I have raised Support ticket on this. I hope I get a solution soon. ---
**Author:** ![Gideon\_Lahav\_Busines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gideon_lahav_busines/32/41121_2.png) [@Gideon\_Lahav\_Busines](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Gideon_Lahav_Busines)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/34 "2025-11-27T12:18:05Z")
This is MAGIC Works great, only thing is, I’d like to select it somehow with a choice list rather than an action, just to make a bit more simple. And/Or add it in the form/edit screen as a “default data” from the screen or user profile ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/35 "2025-11-27T15:47:17Z")
Agreed. I think choice components should have the ability to write to multiple texts column. ---
**Author:** ![Oaklee3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bcef8e/32.png) [@Oaklee3](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Oaklee3)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/36 "2026-01-08T12:56:22Z")
that is actually a massive quality of life upgrade. i am thinking i will use this for multi select category tags instead of just user roles. it is so much cleaner than dealing with separating and parsing comma delimited strings later on. give that a try. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408/37 "2026-01-09T01:11:05Z")
Unfortunately at the moment I believe choice components can not write to a multiple texts column. For multiple images, an image picker component can do it. For multiple files, a file picker component can do it. [Previous page](https://community.glideapps.com/t/multiple-texts-column-now-in-public-preview/81408.md?page=1)