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I have a dropdown field and have opted to allow for multiple selections. When I make my selections like Red, Blue, Green I expect that the field will display the text Red, Blue, Green. However, the only thing that displays is the value of 3. What property do I need to alter to make it display the text of my selections. I've tried sizing the field but that had no effect.

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Michael E. Gernaey 38,255 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Spelo

So let me tell you what the issue is. Its why I kept saying you are saying Dropdown and its a Combobox that supports multi-select (trust me thats what it is)

When you pick too many items, and the total length of the string that it would generate does NOT fit in the width of the "Whats Selected" area, it WILL show you the count,

It's not broken. it's as intended.

That is the answer to the question.

here is an example. I have a form. I made my multi-select Combobox, which is showing my Multi-select Choice column you can see the names just fine.

Now I will shrink it and it will say numbers instead

Make yours wide if you want, but if they select too many OR if your names are super long.. its still going to show numbers. With the size of your strings, you would have to make it really really wide.
ronaldwalcott 1,964 on at

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When you create a dropdown by default it shows the selected items not a count.

Is this dropdown in a form or did you manually create it?

Is it in a datacard?

Show the complete screen with the dropdown.
Spelo 4 on at

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Thanks for the quick responses. To LoveGonzo, no unfortunately I'm not trying to bring back an RGB so your solution won't work for me.

@Michael E. Gernaey - It's not a combobox but rather a choice field wherein I allowed the field to have multiple selections. See the attached images. If I select 4 of the items in the choice box then instead of displaying my choices via text it displays the count of how many choices I selected.

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MMcCloud 10 on at

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Good Evening, hopefully I can help if the goal is to change the color of the text based on the text present like Red being the color red and Blue being the color blue you can follow this step by step.

1. Create your dropdown field then go to items ( this will help with you only seeing a 3 ):

Ensure you have your dataset in the items field or have it written like such.

["Red", "Blue"]

2. Then to change the color of the text

On the same dropdown go to the color field it will look like this

RGBA(50, 49, 48, 1)

Change it to an If Statement based off your terms

Switch(Dropdown1.Selected.Value, "Red", Color.Red, "Blue", Color.Blue)

This will make the values change color based on which is selected and you can copy the format above to go further like this.

Switch(Control Value, First_Value, Outcome_If_First_Value_Met, Second_Value, Outcome_If_Second_Value_Met)

if you are uneven the last entry will be the base case so if no value/case is met.

Feel free to follow up if this doesn't answer your question.
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Michael E. Gernaey 38,255 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Spelo

Do you mean the ComboBox? I am unsure how you set a dropdown to be multi-select.

If you mean the combobox, do you mean the modern or the classic?

Please... always share pictures so we can see what you see, a picture is worth a 1000 words and all that.

Share the Properties of the control, share the DefaultSelectedItems, the Items property etc.

If its the Class, then you are allowed to set the Search field and the View Field. Sounds like your Search field is one thing, but your view is another if you are only showing 3.

Again something is not correct, so please share.