Select Option fieldtype resetting unique IDs

[a-ok]

I'm defining some options in the Select Option fieldtype as follows:

1=Kalundborg Red
1035=Education Teal
1036=Living Orange
1037=Good Life Blue
1038=Careers Cyan

However on saving the field it resets them to

1=Kalundborg Red
2=Education Teal
3=Living Orange
4=Good Life Blue
5=Careers Cyan

Any reason why I cannot specify the unique ID to use?

[szabesz]

According to the docs there should be no issue with it:

"While we recommend letting the Options Fieldtype assign unique ID numbers for you, you may optionally assign your own. To do this, specify 123=title when adding a new option, where 123 is the ID number you wish to assign and title is the title text for your option."

https://processwire.com/api/modules/select-options-fieldtype/#adding-new-options

Also in the fieldtype_options table of database, option_id is int(10), so your numbers should work. Maybe a bug?

[abdus]

I've just tried to assign custom integer values as @oma did, and I'm having the same issue.

Once I submit, PW tries to delete former options as well. This is probably the intended behavior.

and once I confirm to delete those options, I get unique incremential ids for the new options

Checking the database entries, it seems value field isn't filled at all, instead option id is returned

I'd say there's definitely a bug here.

[a-ok]

17 minutes ago, szabesz said:

According to the docs there should be no issue with it:

"While we recommend letting the Options Fieldtype assign unique ID numbers for you, you may optionally assign your own. To do this, specify 123=title when adding a new option, where 123 is the ID number you wish to assign and title is the title text for your option."

https://processwire.com/api/modules/select-options-fieldtype/#adding-new-options

Also in the fieldtype_options table of database, option_id is int(10), so your numbers should work. Maybe a bug?

Thanks for the help. Yeah... bizarre. I've always used 1, 2, 3, 4 etc but this time I needed higher values. I managed to edit the DB values directly and seemed to work fine so perhaps a bug as you say.

[szabesz]

11 minutes ago, abdus said:

PW tries to delete former options as well.

I guess it is normal. IDs "cannot be edited". They get deleted first and afterwards new record is created.

[Tom.]

Could you do?

1=1|Kalundborg Red
2=1035|Education Teal
3=1036|Living Orange
4=1037|Good Life Blue
5=1038|Careers Cyan

Then you access it through $page->option->value 

[szabesz]

5 minutes ago, Tom. said:

Could you do?

It is just a workaround, isn't it?

[Tom.]

17 hours ago, szabesz said:

It is just a workaround, isn't it?

Yeah, I was meaning until the bug is fixed. 

[a-ok]

Thanks for your help everyone. Should I report this bug on Github, or?

[cstevensjr]

1 minute ago, oma said:

Thanks for your help everyone. Should I report this bug on Github, or?

Yes, please

[szabesz]

It was fixed today, see: https://github.com/processwire/processwire-issues/issues/598