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I have a dynamic dropdown in my form with option value {var:Category.id} and option text {var:Category.title} which is fetched from the categories table. At the end of the form, I want to email the user, including the selected option in the email text.
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How can I include the text of a selected dropdown in the email? The dynamic dropdown value is accessible via {data.my_dropdown}, but how do I get the text?
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I found this entry about alternative data, but didn't really work out if this would be a solution or how this works with dynamic data.

Hi mwillburger,
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Reading Max's reply in the other thread it does sound as if that is the solution for static values. Have you tried it?
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For dynamic data it may be simpler to load the data then either save the values to the current user session and recover them on Submit; or you can just look up the submitted value(s) using a Data Read action.
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Bob

Read the database again, using the value of the dropdown.