Bug with List data validation for pure input

Here’s the scenario:

        sheet.cell("B2").dataValidation({ type: 'list',
          allowBlank: false,
          showInputMessage: false,
          prompt: '',
          promptTitle: '',
          showErrorMessage: false,
          error: '',
          errorTitle: '',
          operator: '',
          formula1: 'test1',
          formula2: ''
        });

This works fine,

But once I change formula1 to be multiple items, like on the example on the npmjs page

{
    type: 'list',
    allowBlank: false, 
    showInputMessage: false,
    prompt: false,
    promptTitle: 'String',
    showErrorMessage: false,
    error: 'String',
    errorTitle: 'String',
    operator: 'String',
    formula1: 'Item1,Item2,Item3,Item4',//Required
    formula2: 'String'
}

I get error when I open the excel sheet.

When I went back to the first try that worked with a single item, I found that in the data validation box for excel there was this entry for Source =test1

Looks like the equal is appended to whatever formula1 is. Which won’t work for a static list.

[alandoyle95]

No Problem 😄 This Repo is what my company currently run off of… so I like to try to help maintain it 😄

I have 500+ excel forms a day that get modified by this repo

[Jia265]

Hey alandoyle95, thanks for responding. I just also wanted to add, the first case works fine isn’t exactly right.

The first case just doesn’t error out when I try to open the excel sheet, it doesn’t have any items for the actual dropdown. And when I try to edit the dropdown value in the excel sheet, I would get an error for invalid range, regardless of whether or not I use a range.