Copy paste multipe rows from excel - changes column type to 'Select List' from 'Lookup'?

[Thomas_Robbs1]

Thanks for that suggestion @Scott_Collier-Weir . I’ll give it a try.

However, I’d still argue that it would be nice if a Coda table could be configured to not exhibit this behavior. From a typing perspective, it affects “downstream” functionality that has been built into the doc when Coda changes the types in a way that is incompatible with the expected type downstream.

There is another issue that I posted related to CrossDoc behavior that seems to be related to the same core problem.

User().Email and Crossdoc syncing of Text column that contains eMail address

@BenLee The problem is actually in the crossdoc syncing a Text type column, that happens to have an email address in it. When it’s in the Crossdoc table, and I reference it via Row.eMailTextColumn, or even hover over the Row column so I can see all the values, it’s not showing me the text email. It’s showing me an @-mention of the person (they have access to the doc that contains the crossdoc table). Oddly, when I add that Column from the Row object, it is added as a Text type, but is still r…