Is there a way to define dropdowns (not lookups) as value-description pairs?

Is there a way to define dropdowns (not lookups) as value-description pairs?

Hello.

I have searched the forum, but found no solution.

It would be very useful to have this feature, specially when you have to take different actions based on the user selection: instead of checking against a (probably long) string, you could check against a key or ID.

Is there a way  to accomplish this? And if not, would the Zoho Team be so kind to include this feature in future releases?

Thanks in advance.