Automated Text By Month

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I’ve been trying to figure this out for hours, and it just seems better to go to the community for help.

On the opening section of my doc, I want to display an opening line of text based on the month we are in. I had gotten to a point where I was able to make a table with month and texts as columns (each month has a corresponding line of text). I then created a select dropdown menu with the months as options. What I was hoping is that upon the selection of a month, the corresponding text would appear below, but I’ve been trying every possible formula I’ve thought of and am going around in circles.

EX:
Select “April” the text below appears as “April showers”
Select “May” the text below appears as "Bring May Flowers

Preferably, I would rather have it automatically change at the start of each month, but if that isn’t available, the dropdown method is the alternative.

Thank you!

UPDATE: I was able to figure out a solution by creating a view table and filtering it out that way (hiding titles and column names, etc.), but I am sure there is a better way. Thank you!

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@Katie_Hodgdon

Here are three additional methods:

  1. Canvas Select Control Method
    *Either I’m missing something, or there appears to be a :bug: ? @mallika

  2. Table Select Workaround Method
    *Play with the dropdown menu in the blue column.

  3. Automated Method
    *Automated.

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@Ander to project from a Select List you need to use .Value. It is a bug that we need to get to…
[select month].Value.phrase

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