# Forms don't honour lookup settings

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/forms-dont-honour-lookup-settings/7739>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 1, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/forms-dont-honour-lookup-settings/7739 "2017-03-01T22:04:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![JoPitts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/jopitts/32/636_2.png) [@JoPitts](https://forum.mautic.org/u/JoPitts)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/forms-dont-honour-lookup-settings/7739/1 "2017-03-01T22:04:50Z")

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Hi there. I’ve creating my first Mautic form (holy crap - a real live project! - I’m excited).  
  
  
  
My form has a salutation field on it (linked to the title field in the contact). The contact title field is a lookup with Mr, Miss, Mrs, and Ms (I added the last one).  
  
  
  
However, in my form - the salutation field is free text. Am I missing something here? I would expect it to take look up values from the field setting.  
  
  
  
Regards

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**Author:** ![JoPitts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/jopitts/32/636_2.png) [@JoPitts](https://forum.mautic.org/u/JoPitts)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/forms-dont-honour-lookup-settings/7739/2 "2017-03-01T22:04:50Z")

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Hi there. I’ve creating my first Mautic form (holy crap - a real live project! - I’m excited).

My form has a salutation field on it (linked to the title field in the contact). The contact title field is a lookup with Mr, Miss, Mrs, and Ms (I added the last one).

However, in my form - the salutation field is free text. Am I missing something here? I would expect it to take look up values from the field setting.

Regards

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**Author:** ![JoPitts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/jopitts/32/636_2.png) [@JoPitts](https://forum.mautic.org/u/JoPitts)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/forms-dont-honour-lookup-settings/7739/3 "2017-03-06T04:11:49Z")

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All, just bringing this back to the top. This seems really key. What am I missing?

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**Author:** ![JoPitts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/jopitts/32/636_2.png) [@JoPitts](https://forum.mautic.org/u/JoPitts)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/forms-dont-honour-lookup-settings/7739/4 "2017-03-20T03:59:46Z")

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Bueller… Bueller…  
Anyone?  
Does anyone have a real world use case of using Mautic forms with anything other than free text entry?

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**Author:** ![JoPitts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/jopitts/32/636_2.png) [@JoPitts](https://forum.mautic.org/u/JoPitts)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/forms-dont-honour-lookup-settings/7739/5 "2017-03-20T05:06:34Z")

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@MxyzptlkFishStix ,  
I’ve:

- gone to forms,
- then selected the form in question,
- then clicked on edit,
- then clicked on fields.
- then double click one of my fields  
and get this screen  
 ![](https://i.imgur.com/YQsuVzF.png)

There is no properties option?

Or are you talking about the fields config? If so, I’ve set the fields in question to be lookup.  
 ![](https://i.imgur.com/GHP8hqd.png)

Are you saying they have to be of type ‘select’ or something to have the select lists honoured in forms?

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**Author:** ![JoPitts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/jopitts/32/636_2.png) [@JoPitts](https://forum.mautic.org/u/JoPitts)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/forms-dont-honour-lookup-settings/7739/6 "2017-03-20T05:29:22Z")

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@MxyzptlkFishStix , now that was the missing link. Thanks