ALL the fields were created with Types. Why should lab director behave differently? I am able to populate ALL the other fields without having to go to the "custom fields" section to view them. This makes the edit form very confusing (there are now two Lab Director Name input boxes — if my client completes the first and most obvious one the record will be wrong — and difficult to use for my client and also forces me to re-write all the Views I have created.
This statement works in the form: [cred_field field="lab-director-name" post="p-to-p-applicant" value="" urlparam=""]
So why shouldn't I be able to use field="lab-director-name" when I create a custom select box?