HubSpot Ideas

Stanczak

Delete or clear specific values from multiple checkbox property fields

We are beginning to use a "Customer Status" property that uses multiple checkbox values. Values include things like "At Risk," "Support Issue Outstanding," "Payment Lapsed," etc. This will add tremendous value to our CRM at the customer representative level and at the management level.

 

However, there's a major flaw in our plan. Once the data is populated it cannot be easily maintained through bulk edits in the Sales tool nor by workflows in the Marketing tool. That's because our only tool for editing the data in multiple checkbox fields is to append or replace values.

 

To make this work properly we need a way to bulk edit and delete specific values while retaining all the others.

 

It would also be nice to have a way to filter records for "happy" AND "payment lapsed". As it stands we can only filter for "happy" OR "payment lapsed."

54 Replies
MChandler1
Member

This would be very helpful for us

RobinI
Participant

Any update? Would be very happy to get this new feature as well 🙂

reycepeda
Participant

We need this ASAP. 

carwashorg
Participant

Almost four years later, but this remains an excellent idea!

 

;>)

Philipp_W
Participant

A big disappointment right now. This feature is super important.

PNanney
Participant

We would STRONGLY benefit from this feature for data clean up purposes! I would like to remove an option from our dropdown entirely, for all records. I tried to delete the option in the property settings, but the records which had it selected now display that option in red. Our users got confused because they were unable to update the property without deleting the old option.

 

Ex: Fruits they like: Bananas, Apples, Kumquats, Kiwis, Tomatoes.

Oops, we decided tomatoes are no longer a fruit and we want to remove the option from this dropdown. I delete it in the property settings.

Now the record says a person likes "Bananas, Kumquats, Tomatoes" and people are confused when they try to update it because they have to remove Tomatoes.

tmcginnis
Top Contributor | Elite Partner

HubSpot...any update here?

mprichodko
Participant

yes pleas!!! Can we "disappend" value from the multiplecheckbox property by bulk edit or workflow? PLEEEEEEAAAASE

gdaydk
Member

Yes, we need this as well. Weird that it isn't a feature yet, renders the multiple checkbox feature useless for us if we can't deselect a specific checkbox...

JBergquist46
Participant

Same challenge for us. Need to clear a specific value from a multiple checkbox property. Right now it's only possible to replace och clear the entire property. 

Clear value in workflow, should work in the same way as the add value function. Choose property (multiple chechbox) and then choose value to clear. Simple!

HubSpot, please implement asap!!

FMaher
Contributor

Our issue is we need three lifecycles for 3 different products. We have prospects, clients and partners. A partner can be a partner for one product, a client and a partner for another (so single selection options don't work) and a prospect and a partner for the third. It's removing just the prospect option that is killing me. The prospect can be a prospective partner, or a prospective client.  They are all in one property at the moment - but even if I split it out into 3 properties (per product), I still need the ability to keep one option when I remove the other. The lifecycle property also don't have the option of partner. So we are really stuck.

NSergent
Participant

Hi, 

 

How is it possible that such a basic function is not available and that Hubspot is totally ignoring this ? 

 

I am puzzled by this.

MTimm
Member

I would like to see this feature added as well, bulk removing a single checkbox option is needed, as well as the option to remove that option from all of the fields populated when deleting that from the list of options in the property settings. Once that property value is deleted, it doesn't make sense that it remains on all of the fields. 

bsm007
Top Contributor

We would like to see this as well.

DenaSpoklie
Participant | Partner

Yes, this would be very helpful. User case scenario:

 

Many different email subscriptions and a main sign-up form. The purpose was to make this an easier user experience with multiple subscription options. These then trigger the opt-in email subscriptions. The tricky part is that when someone 'opts out', we'd like to clear that option from the master data field that pulls in all the different options the contact originally chose. 

 

LeeEllis
Participant

We would like to see this as well.

mortenstaal
Participant | Platinum Partner

This is much needed 🙂

Ellesyanna
Contributor | Diamond Partner

Very much needed! 'Append' is possible, why not 'remove' a value? Would be helpful for bulk edits & also as a workflow action

RBurke7
Member

Yes, I'd too like this idea. It's so strange that it isn't a thing. Hello frustrated admins from the future!

Beata_W
Member

Same, I also need to clear a specific value from a multiple checkbox property.