Repeating Action Items

[Lauren_Wilbourne]

Hello! I have a document set up that an emoji triggers an action item. These action items then get logged to a larger list. However, if you do two action items at once and edit both of them, they seem to only record one of the action items twice. I have attached two photos of what this looks like on my end.

In this, I had testing 1 and testing 2. I went to edit both and now it should show as just testin and testing, but as you can see it just has recorded testing two times. It does not record the testin action item.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[Connor_McCormick1]

Hi Lauren, could you share a sample doc?

[Lauren_Wilbourne]

https://coda.io/d/_d_4gZafk9pO/db-action-items_suwNt

[Connor_McCormick1]

I think I understand!

You have a doc that you’re using to take meeting notes. You want to flag action items in those meeting notes with the emoji so that you can extract them to an Action Items table. very cool!

However, sometimes you go back and edit your notes. For example here I might have taken the notes:

And I want to have both “Eat breakfast” and “Make Coda friends” extracted to the Action Items table. Sure enough, when I hit the Log Actions button it works fine:

But now I want to edit the action item:

But now when I hit Log Action it creates a new row instead of editing the original one:

Am I understanding the issue correctly?