Thanks that was somewhat helpful. I could not find any info on that in your docs . So lets say i am using 2 diffrent fields a value and a text in this dropdown where i want to show the user the text but store the value in db which i have covered. How would i go about populating the displayed text when i open an existing form which has this control. If i have a value of 3 for example stored and set the the control to 3 it will show 3 and not the text.