# Ignition 8 Dropdown Menu

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-dropdown-menu/58014>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [April 4, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-dropdown-menu/58014 "2022-04-04T18:31:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Dseckel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dseckel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dseckel)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-dropdown-menu/58014/1 "2022-04-04T18:31:59Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![josborn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@josborn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/josborn)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-dropdown-menu/58014/2 "2022-04-04T19:18:51Z")

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I think this is a known bug:

> [@Perspective dropdown string values are enclosed in quotation marks](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-dropdown-string-values-are-enclosed-in-quotation-marks/57986):
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> 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…