Drop-down fields in forms, similar to reference fields, can have both a value, and a display value. For example, the State field on tasks-based table forms (such as the Incident form) has a set of state options with names like New, In Progress, and Resolved.
However, the actual value associated with these selection labels is a number. In fact, the State field is specifically a number data-type field. This means that despite the label that's displayed in the drop-down, if we call g_form.getValue('state'), we'll get a numerical value rather than the label we see in the form.
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