Has anyone built a select with a New item included?

[Agustin_Carozo (Agustin M. Carozo)]

Hi Cedric ,

we updated our select elements this year to incorporate a bunch of improvements but this specific feature is only available in the deprecated old one.

We have a couple of workarounds community members have tried:

Multiselect - allow to create option

Hi @tcc! You’re actually really close! I would solve this challenge like this: Create a new array variable. In the multi-select options field, map it to the following formula: merge( YOUR_COLLECTION_ARRAY , ARRAY_VARIABLE ) Then in the modal, add a form with the field where the users will write their new options. On form submit, use the action “Change variable value”, select the array variable to be “add to the end” and the value would be the text in the field. Now it should work! You can…

Create a record from multi-select dropdown

I have a signup page where I allow new users to create their profile, including selecting the site that they belong to. If the site exists, they select that site. If it does not exist, they can type it in and the site is created. I’m using a multi-select dropdown for this, but setting the max selection to “1”. What is happening is that I can populate the dropdown from my collection of sites and I can create a new site, if one does not exist, but if I select an existing site, then it duplicates …

You can also try to create your own custom component with the help of Cursor or Claude code, modify our base multiselect element and import it back into your project.
Here are 2 tutorials on how to do it:

Using Cursor To Build Custom Coded Components

Using Claude Code To Build Custom Coded Components

Hope this helps