# Select fields showing option-value instead option-label in e-mails

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/select-fields-showing-option-value-instead-option-label-in-e-mails/30427>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** mautic-4\
**Created:** [January 10, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/select-fields-showing-option-value-instead-option-label-in-e-mails/30427 "2024-01-10T11:13:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![s.sauermann-sta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@s.sauermann-sta](https://forum.mautic.org/u/s.sauermann-sta)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/select-fields-showing-option-value-instead-option-label-in-e-mails/30427/1 "2024-01-10T11:13:32Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: 4.4.5  
My PHP version is: 8.0.27  
My Database type and version is: 10.6.12-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

**Your problem**  
I have created a user-defined field “salutation” of type “Selection” for contacts. Values and labels are different. If I want to insert this field as a variable in an email, I always get the value as output. However, I would like the label to be displayed.

The field is displayed correctly in the detailed view for contacts in the backend. See screenshot.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/2/259d60d262c82760b057592c538354617f10bbf1.png)

Steps I have tried to fix the problem:  
I have tested the following variants.

With the variant {contactfield=salutation} I get the value displayed.  
With the variant {contactfield=salutation:label} nothing is displayed.