Dropdown pointing to content type question

This is pretty confusing to me. If I actually select something from either of those drop downs ,they are stored with my workflow. If I neglect to positively select any of the two drop downs, nothing is stored. Not even the thing that was pre-selected.

What am I doing wrong?

It turns out that if I do not select it positively, even though the drop down placeholder is whats in the database, nothing is actually selected. How do I specify it to be selected?

And I figured it out:

Autobind on parent thing.

I struggled with that idea of the blank space at the top of the drop down in the past…it is because there is a check box on the element in the editor “this input should not be empty”

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check that box and the top of the choices list will not have the blank field any more

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@ryan16 The placeholder is simply cosmetic. It contains no actual value.

On any element, to have a predetermined value you have to use the default value / initial content options.

That took me a while to figure out as well.