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Currently, the only options for case field data types are String, Number, and Boolean.

 

it would be very beneficial to allow admins to assign a particular picklist value based on individual case expression criteria. My original use case for this is in Data Designer, but the option should be available wherever Case Expressions are used.

 

In Data Designer, you often have highly curated data sets, necessitating the creation of new attributes (fields) via transformations that don’t otherwise exist at an object level. Enabling picklists as a data type would allow you more flexibility in assigning an attribute to records in your curated data set, without requiring picklists as permanent attributes on your object level records. 

 

Ideally, admins would be allowed to reference picklists in their designs, not in the design but in data management, as well as create a new picklist, when assigning the values.

It would be great if this can be implemented in case expression. 

And also Percentage type under the formulae field section.

I’m surprised this doesn’t have more votes! This would be a game changer.

It's a very different experience for the end-user: they either have to manually type values (which is error-prone and requires them to know all the options beforehand), versus simply being able to pick from a list:

Filtering using the case output 
Filtering using a picklist

 

Also, mapping these String values to Picklists in a rule action can be problematic - I am constantly changing a character in the Case Statement from how it is configured in the drop-down so they do not update and fail in the action.  Would be much better to select from the drop-down options in the case statement builder.

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