i want to make a phone from within the app as my column type of cell no is enumlist so system generated actions are not available .how to do it?

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yeah thats okay but after selecting External to start call ,next option is "to "whom in which only result type “phone” is accepted whereas my coloumn type is enumlist

Hi @Mogulla_Srinathreddy, You may wish to describe your use case a bit in more detail for using enumlist for phone numbers. As a workaround, for example, instead of enumlist , you may wish to explore assigning say three different phone type columns, one for each phone number, in a record. Is that …

A list of phone numbers is still a LIST, not a valid phone number. The system generated action to Call/Text a phone number will only work when the column-type = Phone. Perhaps your data-type should be Enum instead of EnumList. Both allow displaying a list of items to choose from, but Enum only all…

yeah sure ,Basically what i did is I took the info from my other sheet in which i already filled information.now using “SELECT” function i would able to pull the info my other sheet anf filter down so in order to take phone number from my other list i used “SELECT” function which is giving my return…

If i use virtual coloumn but iam not getting action button in the app

Thank you. If you are getting these phone numbers pulled in from another table into an enumlist column, then I believe you may wish to explore the approach mentioned by @GreenFlux I believe you will not be able to attach a phone icon and call phone number action to an enumlist type column because a…

Suvrutt_Gurjar: I believe you will not be able to attach a phone icon and call phone number action to an enumlist type column because an enumlist column has multiple phone numbers in it. The attachment of the button is not affected by the column type. In fact, the button’s action isn’t even requ…

Action to make a phone call when coumn type is enumlist

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Action to make a phone call when coumn type is enumlist

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