Select - Offer a way to select specific data types (Roles, Channels, etc.)

[Luc1412]

Description

Offer a way to let the user select between specific preset Discord Data. Instead of providing values, you can provide a data_type that automatically inserts all data from the selected types (eg. Roles, Channels, etc.)

The following types can be supported:

• Member/User
• Role
• Channel (Text, Voice may be separated and combined option)
• Mentionable

Why This is Needed

Currently, Components unfortunately doesn't support any type of Selecting Roles, Channels, or users. I think selects is the best component type to solve this.

Alternatives Considered

• Let the user send a message (Current Way)
• Any other component type eg. Textfields (if they are planed)

[ckohen]

Clarification: I believe this is a viable way to implement limiting allowed selections for slash command equivalents. E.g. limiting channel selection to only categories instead of a list of every channel.

[asportnoy]

+1. Since selects have the 25 option limit, we can't even do them by ourselves right now.

[GerardRey]

Exactly, I have tried but I ran into a problem that I have not been able to overcome and that is that the roles in discord can have up to 100 characters and the labels are limited to 25 characters and at most you can only create 25 options.

[solumath]

If this is implemented the select should also show permanently which roles, channels, etc user has instead of looking it up manually

[Jarco-dev]

+1, but I'd also highly advice adding some kind of way to type and search in the select menu as guilds can have heaps of channels and scrolling through them would be a time intensive task

And i'd love it if this would be a feature for selects in general

[ckohen]

If you want searchable, you should use a slash command. This should only be used to present a small subset of the available, chooseable by the developer instead of by the user.

[Jarco-dev]

I am suggestion this because this can be used for many things outside of commands as well such as role menu's and etc....

And on top of that if they do add the channels and etc to select menu's there is a possibility that there will be 100's of options.

[ckohen]

I simply do not see them raising the limit above 25 for listing these, it doesn't make sense. Why would they create a limit simply to break it? I'd much anticipate this being implemented as a specific type of formatted value, e.g. existing mention markdown, and not as a "please list all these things for me"

[advaith1]

This was released on October 13; should be marked as answered