Problem with autopopulation and get selected items

The global action will not work in this case - as it has no connection to a data context.  It has no knowledge of the contact rows you have in your table.   You will either have to create this fucntionality as a row action (where a single row of the table will be in context and can be used to prepoulate data) or on a mass action,  where the action will run sequentially on each of the rows selected - with each row providing context to correctly effect your prepopulation. 

I’m still confident you can do this with no code… 

However- if you simply want to grab all the rows of the table and add them to the LongList - you could go with a coded solution.  Take a look at this tutorial which is not exaclty the same,  but has the cues you need:   http://help.skuidify.com/m/components/l/109496-mass-create-records