Error “Selected value does not exist”

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Hi, I have been using the plugin and its pretty great but recently I have always had problems every time the plugin got updated.

And I have been dynamically filling in select options with values linking to Id’s and my options/labels Showing the name of the item. For example <option value="${value.id}">${value.client_name}</option>

But then when I submit, I get this error ‘Selected value does not exist’.

So what i have been doing is commenting out the

if ( ! $value_exists ) {
			$this->validation_message[ $id ] = apply_filters(
				'forminator_select_field_nonexistent_validation_message',
				esc_html__( 'Selected value does not exist.', 'forminator' ),
				$id,
				$field
			);
		}

code in the validate( $field, $data ) function of library/fields/select.php

every time but it gets overwritten every time the plugin updates.

Will there be future support to turn it off? Is there a way to overwrite this function? Should i be using the prefill functionality? Should I use filters or creating a child plugin? I’m still new to WordPress development so any help is greatly appreciated!

I even tried turning off the forminator updates but it seems to always still get updated no matter what, because even my theme is overwritting my functions.php.

Thanks