I’m building an app and I’m currently using my prototype to connect all data.
It’s much easier to do that through appsheet views than it is to browse through cells finding references.
Once I’m done I will remove all those editing purposes.
Make a copy of your worksheet, work with that data and once you have your app done, change the datasource to your up-to-date worksheet. Make sure you don’t change the schema though.
At this point, all the users that previously used your worksheet should be AppSheet users of your app instead.
Don’t try to build features for both, the worksheet and AppSheet
So I accidentally stumbled upon the solution myself.
I had my ID column both as KEY and as LABEL. But changing the LABEL from my ID column to my MODEL column gave me the result I wanted.
Model value is shown in the dropdown and the ID value is logged in the sheet.