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text only column
I want to use a web form to populate Smartsheet. I have a field called "Section Number" that requires a text value. It is a 3 character field that will contain numerical characters like "001" or "020". I want that to be displayed as a text value in the Smartsheet cell. How to I accomplish that?
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Michael,
I had a similar issue using a webform. I wanted users to enter a customer ID and include the leading zeros.
The way I solved it was in the webform for the Numeric field that required leading "0's was to place a single quote ( ' ) in the "Default Value" field.
Also, in the Help Text above that field I instructed the user to "Please type the client ID to the right of quote. Include leading zeros, ex: '00012345."
See below.
This user could delete the single quote and thus the # wouldn't contain leading zero's.
There may be a way to do this with formulas, but i didn't take the time to figure it out.
Tim
