How to create a custom choice field and then use in multiple times within a table (i.e. different field labels)?

[ty_roach]

I'd like to create a custom choice field one time, call it 'approval_options', with values:
Not Responded
Approved
Needs Discussion
Rejected

Next I'd like to create custom fields (more than one) that use these same choice values. For example, my custom fields that would use this same choice set are fields that I will call:
Customer Care
Cyber Security
Engineering
Operations
Business Office
Board

I could brute force do this, making custom choice fields for each of the above types (including all the color/style updates), but that seems like alot of work. Is there a way create a custom choice field and then use in multiple times within a table (i.e. different field labels)?

[andrew_kincaid]

Yes, you will have to create a style definition for each field even if on the same form. Think of the "Choice table/Choice field" as _only_ providing the data for the choices and nothing else. Even if you have multiple choice fields that are getting their choices from the same source, they are still distinct fields that can have varying style definitions. I realize it would be convenient to be able to check a box on "u_custom_choices" and say "inherit styles" but it just doesn't exist yet (as far as I know) 😉

Andrew Kincaid
Technical Consultant
ServiceNow

[ty_roach]

Thanks Andrew.

So if I am going to introduce 6 new fields that use my new custom choice, and there are 4 choices, each choice getting its own style (eg background color), then I'll have four choices 6 times for a total of 24 entries. I was trying to get away from that with my custom choice that would get referred to but it seems there's really no benefit to doing it (at least in this case - as our peeps want to see the colors associated with the choices). So, I guess I'm just back to the brute force method,

Can you mark this as a customer wish list item 🙂

Thanks for all your help.