# Support a list of checkboxes in block fields
**URL:** https://forum.buildkite.community/t/support-a-list-of-checkboxes-in-block-fields/470
**Category:** Features Requests
**Created:** [May 7, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/support-a-list-of-checkboxes-in-block-fields/470 "2019-05-07T04:38:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@rb\_iress](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/rb_iress)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/support-a-list-of-checkboxes-in-block-fields/470/1 "2019-05-07T04:38:07Z")
Originally posted on github: [https://github.com/buildkite/feedback/issues/280](https://github.com/buildkite/feedback/issues/280)
At the moment, if you want people to choose from a list of items with [custom block fields](https://buildkite.com/docs/pipelines/block-step) it’s very difficult. The common way people are doing it is pre-filling a textarea, and then asking people to remove any lines from the text area. And then using that value, split on newline, as the chosen options. This is error prone and a bit clunky.
A better way might be a way for people to use an array of checkbox options in the block form…
If you we had a new checkbox option, and someone used the `key` field of `servers-to-deploy` , and someone unblocked it selecting 2 of the 10 available options, the meta-data keys/values could be:
```auto
servers-to-deploy-count=2
servers-to-deploy-1=The First Server
servers-to-deploy-2=The Second Server
```
To use those values, you could iterate over them using bash:
if buildkite-agent meta-data exists “servers-to-deploy-count”; then for i in `seq 1 $(buildkite-agent meta-data get "servers-to-deploy-count")`; do echo “Deploying server (buildkite-agent meta-data get "servers-to-deploy-{i}”)…" done fi
If nothing is selected, then there should be no `servers-to-deploy-count` key.
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### Author:  [@anon46008679](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/anon46008679)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/support-a-list-of-checkboxes-in-block-fields/470/2 "2019-06-22T00:19:11Z")
Good news: we’ve just added support for this 🎉
> **[Support for selecting multiple options in block steps](https://buildkite.com/changelog/63-support-for-selecting-multiple-options-in-block-steps)**
>
> We’ve added a new multiple property to block steps, giving you the ability to select multiple options when unblocking builds ☑️