A more simple setup for setting a string based on a dropdown menu

[Man]

I have a dropdown to select between 3 strings and a "Result" string that pulls the value based on the dropdown.  I'm wondering if there's a more preferred approach because if I want to add/remove an option I have to change it in 3 or 4 places.

I figured out my initial question of why everything isn't evaluated as expected when you first create a node when I set up this example, but I left it broken in the attached files.  If I change the default value of "dropdown" to "option1" it will work as expected.

dropdown_test.hda

[3dome]

I'm at work right now so can't look at your file, so I don't know how you set it up. But the way I'd do it is create a menu, as tokens I'd give it one, two, three with respective labels option1, option2, option3 

and in the result parm use `chs("menu")` (or whatever the name of the menu parm)

 

hope this helps