Thanks.

I've now managed to get the select's listing to work but have run into other problems now.

I initialise the relevant column in the grid with

{name:'dbcourseid', index:'dbcourseid', width:60, editable:true, edittype:'select', align:'left'}

I then work out what the courselist should be – in this case

19:Blue;20:Orange;21:Green

I then set this as the source for the column using

$(“#grid_rm”).setColProp('dbcourseid',{editoptions:{value:courselist}});

I then load 2 rows using addRowData

The dbcourseid column for these 2 rows show the numbers rather than the colours. I've tried with formatter:'select' but that doesn't seem to work either. (I'm running an earlier version of 3.5 so upgraded to 3.5.3 but that causes other errors in other grids which I can't pin down)

However if I add another row using editGridRow(“new”) then the dropdown in that shows the colours and also stores the colour, rather than the number, in the grid.

I can't work out what I have to do to make the column behave like a standard foreign key column – ie ID Value where the ID is stored but the Value is displayed. I suspect this may be fixed, from reading other threads, on the latest version but I can't get 3.5.3 to work without errors elsewhere and when I skip over the bits that it errors on (other grids) it still doesn't do it – with or without the formatter option set.

Am I doing something fundementally wrong here?

Thanks again.

Romyn