Ignition 8 Dropdown Menu

[Dseckel]

I have a dropdown menu that is populated with alarm pipeline names using a script. When the operator selects a pipeline from the list I write this string to a memory tag inside a UDT. Problem is that for some reason the string value from the dropdown comes into the tag with quotation marks around it. When a alarm triggers, because of the quotes, the alarm doesn’t know what pipeline to use. When I first created this widget it worked perfectly. I recently upgraded the server top 8.15. Now I get quotes? Any help to understand this would be greatly appreciated

[josborn]

I think this is a known bug:

Perspective dropdown string values are enclosed in quotation marks

I am trying to make a dropdown selector which will be bi-directionally bound to a UDT parameter, which is a string type. I have the binding set up, and I have 5 options in my list as follows: value: Apples label: Apples value: Bananas label: Bananas value: Oranges label: Oranges …and so on. At runtime, when I select Bananas from the list, the tag property updates, but not to Bananas - to “Bananas” (there are quotation marks automatically added). In addition, the dropdown selector goes b…