# Split Text column
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805
**Category:** General
**Created:** [September 15, 2020, 9:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805 "2020-09-15T09:36:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@JackVaughan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/JackVaughan)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2020, 9:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/1 "2020-09-15T09:36:34Z")
In case you missed it - the new Split Text column splits up text into separate values. This is particularly useful for Relations.
[Read more in our docs.](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/computed-columns/split-text-column)
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### Author:  [@S\_C](https://community.glideapps.com/u/S_C)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/2 "2020-09-15T14:40:34Z")
Thanks @JackVaughan. It’s very helpful just like your videos.
Suggestion for Glide Team - Is it possible to pin official announcements for 1-2 days? It helps us prioritize reading posts in the community (feature request 1)
Problem - Old Announcement threads become active with “NEW’ emoji in subject causing confusion. It’s painful to have to track real Glide updates on community and Twitter. Ideally, paying users should get a weekly email digest (feature request 2 😀).
If I am unaware of the best way to track only new updates, please share.
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### Author:  [@JackVaughan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/JackVaughan)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/3 "2020-09-15T19:27:03Z")
Sure, I appreciate that. For a clearer list, I’d recommend using: [https://www.glideapps.com/product/updates](https://www.glideapps.com/product/updates).
We’ll have a think about the pinning. I think we want to use that sparingly - rather than all the time.
I might drop the New emoji - that’s a good point.
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### Author:  [@S\_C](https://community.glideapps.com/u/S_C)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/4 "2020-09-15T20:13:58Z")
Thanks😀
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### Author:  [@Naos\_Wilbrink](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Naos_Wilbrink)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/5 "2020-09-16T10:38:20Z")
Great page! Didn’t know it existed 🙂
One note: [https://www.glideapps.com/product/updates/glide-tables](https://www.glideapps.com/product/updates/glide-tables) check the 2 buttons below. They both go to a URL “[https://www.glideapps.com/product/updates/Not%20supported](https://www.glideapps.com/product/updates/Not%20supported)”
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### Author:  [@JackVaughan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/JackVaughan)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 10:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/6 "2020-09-16T10:54:03Z")
Yes - i noticed this yesterday right after I posted this. Thanks - we’re on it.
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### Author:  [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/7 "2020-09-16T11:47:43Z")
@Naos_Wilbrink Very nice page. You @JackVaughan should market that a lot 👍
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### Author:  [@JackVaughan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/JackVaughan)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/8 "2020-09-16T11:54:31Z")
Yes, only started recently. We will make it more prominent at some point soon.
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### Author:  [@Makis\_Theonas](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Makis_Theonas)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/9 "2020-09-21T07:47:03Z")
Is there a way to use the Split Text Column as values for Choice component?
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 9:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/10 "2020-09-21T09:35:06Z")
Seems like a no for now, it has always been that way for array values.
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### Author:  [@Makis\_Theonas](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Makis_Theonas)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/11 "2020-09-21T11:23:07Z")
I think it would be very handy - maybe those in charge evaluate this.
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### Author:  [@Thibault\_Milan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Thibault_Milan)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 8:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/12 "2020-10-16T08:40:16Z")
Oddly, when I try to make a relation from a split column, even when I checked “multiple” I only have one item returned then a lot of “-” items which … I don’t know where they came from ☹
Another cool feature for the split column would be able to use them to have a list in a view without having to create a relation necessarily. Just display beautifully a list of elements, one by one.
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### Author:  [@Manu.n](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Manu.n)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/13 "2020-10-16T08:55:23Z")
Hello,
The display of relationship columns changed this week.
I recommend that you test your relationship in the app or with other Lookup columns.
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### Author:  [@Thibault\_Milan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Thibault_Milan)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/14 "2020-10-16T09:55:16Z")
Need a relation to try a lookup, and I can’t create a proposer relation based on the split text column so ☹
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### Author:  [@Manu.n](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Manu.n)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 11:18am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/15 "2020-10-16T11:18:43Z")
I knew I had already made the solution.
The trick is to split your Joint column and then make a relation with the Split column.
It works, I did a test on one of my applications.
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### Author:  [@Thibault\_Milan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Thibault_Milan)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/16 "2020-10-16T11:25:59Z")
Well, he doesn’t right now, that’s my point:
Split column:
The relation that doesn’t work properly (notice the `-` everywhere):
The `Avail_Days` column:
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### Author:  [@Manu.n](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Manu.n)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 11:29am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/17 "2020-10-16T11:29:47Z")
It’s curious, I did the test with email
and i also did a test with dates and it works too.
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### Author:  [@Manu.n](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Manu.n)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/18 "2020-10-16T11:43:55Z")
This is probably linked to the date format. or there is the time which does not correspond.
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### Author:  [@Thibault\_Milan](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Thibault_Milan)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 11:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/19 "2020-10-16T11:46:57Z")
ok but see, you have a lot of `-` too …
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### Author:  [@Manu.n](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Manu.n)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/split-text-column/15805/20 "2020-10-16T11:47:25Z")
when working with related dates, glide uses the full date & time format.
well that’s my observation.
As in my example, in the date column the format is dd / mm / yyyy and therefore relation is the full format.
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