# Improve "Drop down list with values from input arrays" to keeps latest successfully selected array name

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/improve-drop-down-list-with-values-from-input-arrays-to-keeps-latest-successfully-selected-array-name/422
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 13, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/improve-drop-down-list-with-values-from-input-arrays-to-keeps-latest-successfully-selected-array-name/422 "2018-08-13T17:44:43Z")
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### Author: ![JonathanBorduas](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@JonathanBorduas](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/JonathanBorduas)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/improve-drop-down-list-with-values-from-input-arrays-to-keeps-latest-successfully-selected-array-name/422/1 "2018-08-13T17:44:43Z")

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Hi Community,

I just added a new issue on gitlab regarding “Drop down list with values from input arrays”.

I think it would be incredibly helpful to keep in memory the latest successfully selected array name instead of defaulting to “None” when the array can’t be found.

This is much like the behaviour of display/coloring: Even when the array is absent, the selection is still the previous successfully selected array that is concatenate with an “(?)” symbol.

You can see the issue on gitlab here.  
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18371](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18371)