How to paste into a Multi Select Dropdown Field
Other tools allow you to paste into a multi-select field if you break the entries with commas or semicolons. I can't seem to get this to work in Smartsheet. Instead of selecting my options, it always creates a new entry with all options on one line.
Am I missing something, or is this feature not supported?
Thanks!
Answers
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Hi Mike,
Unfortunately, as far as I know, it's not possible at the moment to paste and get the values separated, but it's an excellent idea!
Please submit an Enhancement Request when you have a moment
As a possible workaround, you could use something like JOIN COLLECT to get the values and then add them to the multi-select column.
Something like this.
=JOIN(COLLECT(ColumnA$1:ColumnC$1; ColumnA@row:ColumnC@row; @cell = 1); CHAR(10))
Would that work?
I hope that helps!
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The delimiter for multi-select is CHAR(10) which is a line break. When those are used as your delimiter, you can use text wrapping to have it show as expected.
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This is exactly correct and saved me a ton of headache. To create a line break in Excel (to paste into the Smartsheet cell):
- Write your first value
- Hold ALT and press Enter
- Repeat as many times as you need
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@Evansrob In Smartsheet I believe it is Ctrl+Enter to get the line break when manually typing.
