# Populate a label box from a datasource

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**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [May 16, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/populate-a-label-box-from-a-datasource/3007496 "2024-05-16T15:51:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![ray.hearnevgk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@ray.hearnevgk](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ray.hearnevgk)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/populate-a-label-box-from-a-datasource/3007496/1 "2024-05-16T15:51:56Z")

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Hi All

Very new to this and was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction.

I am trying to give the user the option to pick up to 4 items from 20 column headers in my datasource.

Ideally, it would be a dropdown list in the text box but alternatively, it would be picking the 4 items from a list on another screen and populating the text boxes on another screen.

Any guidance would be great.

Thanks  
Ray

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**Author:** ![matt\_conroy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/matt_conroy/32/150843_2.png) [@matt\_conroy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/matt_conroy)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/populate-a-label-box-from-a-datasource/3007496/2 "2024-05-17T20:01:14Z")

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Hi @ray.hearnevgk, welcome to Thunkable! 🎉

Be sure to check out our posts about [How to ask Great Questions v2.0](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-ask-great-questions-v2-0/2689983/1) and our [Community Guidelines](https://community.thunkable.com/t/community-guidelines/78/8) as you get started.

I think the basic idea here would be to save whatever data you want from the item clicked to a variable. Then, on the other screen, set the label’s text to the variable (or property of the object from the variable if you are grabbing the entire row of data).

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**Author:** ![ray.hearnevgk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@ray.hearnevgk](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ray.hearnevgk)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/populate-a-label-box-from-a-datasource/3007496/3 "2024-05-20T15:20:22Z")

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Super, Much appreciated

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/populate-a-label-box-from-a-datasource/3007496/4 "2024-08-18T15:20:45Z")

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