# New 'Format as text' expression on lists

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-format-as-text-expression-on-lists/121898>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [November 19, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-format-as-text-expression-on-lists/121898 "2020-11-19T20:02:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Christophe\_HK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Christophe\_HK](https://forum.bubble.io/u/Christophe_HK)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-format-as-text-expression-on-lists/121898/21 "2020-11-22T10:01:44Z")

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Type enter in the delimiter field

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**Author:** ![nnich19](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/nnich19/32/18315_2.png) [@nnich19](https://forum.bubble.io/u/nnich19)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-format-as-text-expression-on-lists/121898/22 "2020-11-23T15:38:12Z")

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Ha! Yeah, would have been nice to know BEFORE running a bulk backend workflow on 15k+ records 🤷‍♂️

Really looking forward to playing with this.

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**Author:** ![nicolas\_dap](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/nicolas_dap/32/26345_2.png) [@nicolas\_dap](https://forum.bubble.io/u/nicolas_dap)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-format-as-text-expression-on-lists/121898/23 "2020-11-24T22:41:52Z")

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Found a bug with Files. Bug report sent 2 min ago

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**Author:** ![juancamilovasquezard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/juancamilovasquezard/32/65341_2.png) [@juancamilovasquezard](https://forum.bubble.io/u/juancamilovasquezard)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-format-as-text-expression-on-lists/121898/24 "2020-11-25T00:19:50Z")

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This is great !!! Thanks !!! 😃

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**Author:** ![sudsy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/sudsy/32/114637_2.png) [@sudsy](https://forum.bubble.io/u/sudsy)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-format-as-text-expression-on-lists/121898/25 "2020-12-04T04:03:35Z")

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> [@luke2](#):
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> Very useful for APIs

Yeah, except for returning results from Bubble’s own endpoints. I thought it might help with my quest to output only a subset of a Thing’s fields, and it does; but you’re forced to return plain text instead of JSON from the Bubble endpoint. See [this post](http://forum.bubble.io/t/returning-only-a-few-fields-of-a-thing-via-an-api-call/112620/9). If anyone has any other ideas, I’m all 👂👂

🙂

(Still a **super useful** feature though.)

-Steve

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**Author:** ![lottemint.md](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/lottemint.md/32/26549_2.png) [@lottemint.md](https://forum.bubble.io/u/lottemint.md)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-format-as-text-expression-on-lists/121898/26 "2021-07-16T10:32:57Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/b/d/bdb7122acec26ea9d00c2fd3b0877ede93c3ce86.png)

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/0/9/0923782dcdde7ef4c46f153750f20e1d97004dbf.png)

Finally, we have that feature! Thanks to the Bubble team!

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/0/7/078da5bf339cf83f56eb79f2a3983d88321b7082.png)

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**Author:** ![luke2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/luke2/32/256674_2.png) [@luke2](https://forum.bubble.io/u/luke2)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-format-as-text-expression-on-lists/121898/27 "2021-07-16T10:33:45Z")

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Perfect timing - was just about to post about this…docs here:  
[https://manual.bubble.io/core-resources/data/operations-and-comparisons#formatted-as-json-safe](https://manual.bubble.io/core-resources/data/operations-and-comparisons#formatted-as-json-safe)

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**Author:** ![eli](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/eli/32/42610_2.png) [@eli](https://forum.bubble.io/u/eli)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-format-as-text-expression-on-lists/121898/28 "2021-07-16T10:48:04Z")

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This is great!

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