Explanation of the data type *lookup*

The custom field “Title” is of data type lookup. I can see that it takes “options” or values such as “Mr”, “Mrs”, or “Miss”, but that upon presentation of a contact form containing this field, the user is able to enter values other than the pre-defined options. I would like to know more about the proper use of this data type, particularly as opposed to, for example, the data type Select. I would be grateful for a pointer to documentation or an explanation here. I have searched the forum and documentation to no avail.

Context: I am thinking of using this “Title” field to hold values other than the default ones, and want to avoid any pitfalls.

Thank you for your help.

Any answer there so far? I’m facing the same issue, no documentation that I found regarding the difference lookup/selection.

I think it should be like an autosuggest.
But right now it seems broken.
Joey

could you ignore the (non-deletable) system ‘title’ field and assign your own ‘title-field’ with a ‘selection’ (= drop-down) field and manually assign the salutations there…or will this affect something elsewhere? Many thx.

Sure you can. It won’t break Mautic.

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