Merge tag label and value

Hi,

I've developed a quick online quote generator using GF. In the form, I used a dropdown for target translation language, and a "value" for the base rate. Then sent this label and value to the other page via querystring using the merge tags. So it redirects to something like:
http://url.com/?target="Turkish"&rate="100"
And the page prints this target language title, and multiplies this rate with the given input word count etc. This was working until recently.

NOW IT'S NOT WORKING. :) And here ıs the bug I just fıgured out:
When there are more than one choice in the dropdown list having the same "value", then it just sends the first one in the list as the merge tag.

for example:
Let's say my choices are:
Arabic|110
English|150
Japanese|150
Turkish|110

And if we select Japanese, the merge tag uses "English" as the target in query string, and if we select Turkish, it would send "Arabic" as the target value.

I think it's a bug, and it just happened. It was working fine a few updates back.

Thank you.

Hi,

Thank you for the response.

Now of course values must be unique for this logic to work but the values (prices) are not unique. My question is that it was working as it is now at some point. Now it needs to be unique.

I don't know the exact versions because it's all on my clients server but we made the code about 6 months ago, and they reported me this bug last week. So it might have been changed anywhere in between.

i have the same problem and i cannot use price to get out of it, is there a ":label" option?

i have read that many times now, thanks, i either am missing something or it is not there...

"value (Applies only to drop down, checkboxes and radio button fields)
Displays the selected item's value. Applicable if the field was configured with 'enable values'. {Field:5:value}"

I understand that - problem - dropdown has multiple fields with same value and different label
i.e.
label 1|valuea
label2|valuea
label3|valueb
label4|valuec
label5|valuec

- if i choose label 2, it gets valuea, but when i use a mergetag to get {label 2:id#} it returns label1. if I choose label 5 it gets valuec, but when i pull label with merge tag i get label4...