Hello Walter,

The dropdownlist component is not an out-of-the-box editor in the grid. It is used as a custom editor.

This means that it is in your control to set up the dropdown behavior:

• Define the text field shown in it. It can even be different information than what's in the grid.
• Define the value field that will be "hidden" behind the text.
• Determine how to use both these fields and information in order to update the model the grid is bound to (and, the database).

as well as the grid behavior:

• The Field property of the column defines which field of the model is used for filtering, sorting and grouping. It does not have to match the fields and values of the dropdownlist.
• You can define a cell template to show something else than the raw string value of the Field: https://docs.telerik.com/blazor-ui/components/grid/templates#column-template.

With this, you have full control over the data display, data operations and editing operations.

Regards,
Marin Bratanov
Progress Telerik