# How to store a text entry in a variable and save it in Airtable?

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-a-text-entry-in-a-variable-and-save-it-in-airtable/993523>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** variables, textbox, textinput, airtable, stored-variable\
**Created:** [November 23, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-a-text-entry-in-a-variable-and-save-it-in-airtable/993523 "2020-11-23T12:34:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![rkhaykerwi2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/rkhaykerwi2/32/89793_2.png) [@rkhaykerwi2](https://community.thunkable.com/u/rkhaykerwi2)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-a-text-entry-in-a-variable-and-save-it-in-airtable/993523/1 "2020-11-23T12:34:45Z")

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Why I can not save the text in this way?  
Can someone help me, please?

 ![Qt2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/3/1/31a2c251548a43bd98ef1fe89900a9656412be7a.png)

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**Author:** ![luv.ak.tech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/luv.ak.tech/32/104896_2.png) [@luv.ak.tech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/luv.ak.tech)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-a-text-entry-in-a-variable-and-save-it-in-airtable/993523/2 "2020-11-23T13:26:31Z")

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it is not working?

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**Author:** ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-a-text-entry-in-a-variable-and-save-it-in-airtable/993523/3 "2020-11-23T13:39:38Z")

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I would suggest to debug your code by displaying an alert or put the result in a label and make that the first thing in the [Click] event of the button that creates the row in the Airtable.

Let’s first be sure what the variable holds just before you write it to the new row. If this is ok then we look further.

So the first block in [Button\_Enviar02].[Click] would be to display the content of the variable then continue as stated.

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**Author:** ![rkhaykerwi2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/rkhaykerwi2/32/89793_2.png) [@rkhaykerwi2](https://community.thunkable.com/u/rkhaykerwi2)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-a-text-entry-in-a-variable-and-save-it-in-airtable/993523/4 "2020-11-23T13:53:23Z")

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Is not working. Because, by logic, it was supposed to work.

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**Author:** ![rkhaykerwi2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/rkhaykerwi2/32/89793_2.png) [@rkhaykerwi2](https://community.thunkable.com/u/rkhaykerwi2)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-a-text-entry-in-a-variable-and-save-it-in-airtable/993523/5 "2020-11-23T13:54:42Z")

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I will try this.

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-store-a-text-entry-in-a-variable-and-save-it-in-airtable/993523/6 "2024-11-08T12:21:31Z")

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