I have an automation that currently as part of it's flow will overwrite data in a column with data I have specified in the "Take Data From" field. This is causing an issue since this column is a picklist and the automation is just writing the data as a string and not as a picklist selection.
Is there a formula/method to have that "overwrite data" part of the automation actually pick an item from the picklist? Or is there a way to do validation on the column to make sure they're specified as picklist items (represented in blue text, not just normal black text)?
Great question to ask here, since I can see others run into this as well.
As you noted, if an automation only writes a string, it will not write the intended row or rowlink. Instead, to write the row that would be selected from a picklist, you would use FINDROW() to specify that row.
For example, if you had a table of statuses, and you wanted to write the row from that table, the formula would look like =FINDROW(StatusTable,"StatusTable[Status]=%","Open") rather than just the string "Open".
