Did not work, could it have anything to do with being a virtual column? Long story short, it fills in by Goole forms online. I wanted to add the progress status off the form for personal view. Ty all also lmk if you need certain screenshots.

Nope I accidentally inserted [This]

Hey I will double check, but yes that is exactly what I mean, I did have Initial value "pending" but cannot get it to stick.

Hey ty for the reply. So a slice for the status column?

Whatever I was doing, the problem was coming from building on the appaheet tables, I switched to building on sheets and it's fixed now.