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How to make a text field specify the data for a list field?

edited Jun 2, 2025 2:26PM in Search / Reporting 5 comments

Lets say we had a list field that used this list....

COLOR: INTERNAL ID

red 1

green 20

blue 30


Then we wanted to do a mass update to populate that list selection for a number of records and our formula looked at a different text field and if text was like 'red%' then 1, and like 'green%' then 20, like 'blue%' then 30.

I tried a formula like that (but properly formatted) and I got a mismatched data/wrong data type error. IS this not possible? Can we not populate a list field by providing the matching text values from a text field?

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