Creating and Linking New Options from Multiselect Dropdown to Data filed

[Orbit]

Hello Bubble Forum,

I am currently building a feature that allows users to add their skills, such as gardening, car mechanic, etc., with the option to add custom skills if they are not already available in the database. I chose this approach instead of a simple text field so that I can filter by skills later and display statistics on the admin dashboard.

I’ve been following the tutorial How to Let Users Create Their Own Options for Multiselect Dropdowns by @romanmg, which is excellent and very informative despite being five years old.

Currently, users can create their own skill, such as “Marketing,” and it successfully adds “Marketing” as a new entry in the Skills data type.

The issue I am facing now is during the account creation process. I want to associate the newly added skill with the user’s Work Experience, defined earlier in the workflow. For example:

Data Type: Work Experience

• Work: Gardener for friends (text)
• Skills: Gardening, Watering (list of skills)

When trying to save the skills, I encounter a problem because they are stored as text rather than being linked to the Skills data type.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

[iwakinomotoye]

@Orbit

e the skills, I encounter a problem because they are stored as text rather than being linked to the Skills data type

why not do:
skills add list search for skills where name is in multidropdown value.

[Orbit]

Hey @iwakinomotoye, thanks for your comment, i dont have the exact expression you showed?

I tried the following and it asks for more:

[Orbit]

Sorry my bad now i understand, This worked very well, thank you so much