# Problem with Lists from Airtable

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/problem-with-lists-from-airtable/3606388
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problem-with-lists-from-airtable/3606388 "2025-02-25T17:04:07Z")
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### Author: ![mike.cravenkcngfc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@mike.cravenkcngfc](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mike.cravenkcngfc)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problem-with-lists-from-airtable/3606388/1 "2025-02-25T17:04:07Z")

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I think that this should be simple, but I just can’t figure it out. I’m pulling data from an Airtable source into a list. This is just a simple example to illustrate the issue. I’m sure that I’m doing something wrong and I’d appreciate any help.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f2c16def8399ae8b379bcffff4c09292bdc680b.png)

I’m just appending “A” as a place holder for the data that I will use in the future, however the simple list is being populated with the data from ‘Full Project List’ instead of ‘Unique Project List’ as far as I can tell and Label1 ‘Length of Unique Project List’ is set to 88 before I ever add a value to the list.

If anyone could tell me what I’m doing wrong here, I would greatly appreciate it.

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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: [February 25, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problem-with-lists-from-airtable/3606388/2 "2025-02-25T17:22:11Z")

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Hi mike.cravenkcngfc, welcome to Thunkable! 🎉

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The issue is with how you are setting or calling these variables, you’re using the blocks for [dynamically named variables](https://docs.thunkable.com/blocks/blocks/variables-overview#h_233de41291). This block is looking for text so when another variable block is placed here, an error occurs.

Instead, use the set variable for static names when setting Full Project List.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/a/8/a867623835e544c0d69ea11e050f8df919fef74c.png)

For setting the text or text items to a variable, you’ll want to use [App Variable name block](https://docs.thunkable.com/blocks/blocks/variables-overview/variables#app-variable-name).

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/2/0/20b4605525ce20b9d7c7bd6b4ae25aa470194b92.png)

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### Author: ![mike.cravenkcngfc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@mike.cravenkcngfc](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mike.cravenkcngfc)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problem-with-lists-from-airtable/3606388/3 "2025-02-25T17:30:22Z")

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Thank you so much! I think I finally understand. I knew it would be simple lol.

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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: [May 26, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/problem-with-lists-from-airtable/3606388/4 "2025-05-26T17:31:01Z")

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