Programmatically get the actual text of a dropdown selection

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Hi @mjgs!

I’m wondering if you wouldn’t mind expanding a bit more on your use-case here. I’m getting that you want to save the dropdown columns selections of a board, but I guess I’m confused on when/where you would be “loading” this information.

Are you just looking to automatically create dropdown label options for a board without assigning them to item(s) on said board?

If so, at this time I’m afraid that you wouldn’t be able to add dropdown label options without also assigning them to a particular item. There are currently only two ways to create new labels in either a Status or a Dropdown column:

  1. Include the create_labels_if_missing argument to your mutation query as denoted in this announcement post. You can see that these methods require you to alter a value to include this new label.
  2. Create a new column and set pre-existing labels using the settings_str argument.

Is this what you had in mind? And if so, could either one of these options work?