Custom Field Showing Value on Report instead of matching Drop Down choice

[Stacey_Robertson]

I am creating a report that shows a value chosen from a custom field (drop down menu).  That custom form has values showing that don't match the drop down selection (for example - it shows designer name on the drop down and the value is their ID).  The report is defaulting to showing the value, is there a way that I can show the ID?  My text mode is shown below:

displayname=Project Lead
querysort=project:program:DE:Primary Designer
textmode=true
valuefield=project:program:DE:Primary Designer
valueformat=HTML

[KellieGWAB]

Hi Stacey what kind of report are you running? Project, task, etc?

[Stacey_Robertson]

It is an assignment report

[KellieGWAB]

To my knowledge it's not possible to do.

Since you can't pull in a program value naturally in an assignment report and are using text mode already there isn't a way to get it back to the actual choice vs the value without using a series of IF statements. Hopefully someone else can weigh in to help. 

[jessicac_VG]

I am working on a nested IF statement to solve a similar problem, but would love to here if there is another option. The same issue occurs on a journal entry report when a typeahead field text is changed.

[JonnyMathias21]

We had a similar scenario (dropdown storing supplier name/ id in the key value pairs). I was able to get the value printed on an expense report using the text mode below. 

displayname=Supplier Number
textmode=true
valueexpression={DE:Supplier}
valueformat=HTML