# Setting a list in Airtable cell **URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038 **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X **Created:** [January 19, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038 "2021-01-19T07:33:07Z") **Posts on this page:** 11 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![codeswept](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/codeswept/32/87755_2.png) [@codeswept](https://community.thunkable.com/u/codeswept) #### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038/1 "2021-01-19T07:33:07Z")
Hey, I just had a question as to whether it is possible to put a list in one Airtable cell. Is it possible to create a column, and then save a list in each column cell? Thanks ---
### 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: [January 19, 2021, 7:55am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038/2 "2021-01-19T07:55:05Z")
i guess yea ---
### 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: [January 19, 2021, 8:16am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038/3 "2021-01-19T08:16:29Z")
@codeswept You might need to consider having the type filed to `long text` which can take up to 100,000 characters. The single line text might not be enough to house a list of considerable size. ---
### Author: ![codeswept](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/codeswept/32/87755_2.png) [@codeswept](https://community.thunkable.com/u/codeswept) #### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038/4 "2021-01-19T09:31:53Z")
Thanks for your answer. I was just asking whether it’s possible to save a list inside 1 airtable cell. ---
### 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: [January 19, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038/5 "2021-01-19T14:34:51Z")
Yes, you can. I just created a list and saved it to a cell in Airtable. I first converted the list to CSV and saved it to a variable then updated the row and checked it directly from Airtable. ---
### Author: ![codeswept](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/codeswept/32/87755_2.png) [@codeswept](https://community.thunkable.com/u/codeswept) #### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038/6 "2021-01-19T15:30:08Z")
I saved it as text(I’m saving ratings), and then did a `make list from text` to get it into list format. Could you please elaborate a bit more on your CSV solution? I didn’t quite get that. ---
### Author: ![emregoker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/emregoker/32/90431_2.png) [@emregoker](https://community.thunkable.com/u/emregoker) #### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038/7 "2021-01-19T15:33:03Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/8/f/8f2b3c33a2e187e54013cdbf09dfcc6afea1051e.png) Hope this works for you ---
### 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: [January 19, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038/8 "2021-01-19T15:45:59Z")
Yes but before this step I change the list to a test string separated by comma (CSV) with the following ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/7/5/754cb91b742e62079b1c1fba7ec7efe00f082609.png) And then use the SetCell to save the the string of text. Of course when you read it from the Cell then use `make list from text` to use it as a list in the code. ---
### Author: ![emregoker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/emregoker/32/90431_2.png) [@emregoker](https://community.thunkable.com/u/emregoker) #### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038/9 "2021-01-19T15:50:17Z")
This is not required in my code block. It is already converting to JSON format. But both give the same result ---
### Author: ![codeswept](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/codeswept/32/87755_2.png) [@codeswept](https://community.thunkable.com/u/codeswept) #### Post date: [January 20, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038/10 "2021-01-20T03:59:10Z")
Thanks for this! My code does not want to save object values, though. ---
### 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, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/setting-a-list-in-airtable-cell/1057038/11 "2024-11-08T13:30:36Z")