Updating a dropdown column using labels?

Hi @JCorrell ,
thank you a lot for the reply, hope I will get another reply from you soon.

following is my query. I am able to set
following is my data to save … I’m able to save Person, People but can’t set the dropdown one. if I set it using index say “{“dropdown”:{“ids”:[1]},“status”:{“label”:“New”}}” then it is working. but I do not have the index value from where I am trying to create Item record.

settings.data
“{“query”:“mutation {create_item (board_id: 977514374, group_id: “topics”,item_name:“Task 1”,column_values:”{\“dropdown\”:{\“value\”:\”{\\\“label\\\”:\\\“JGNL\\\”}\"},\“status\”:{\“label\”:\“New\”},\“people\”:{\“personsAndTeams\”:[{\“id\”:15680801,\“kind\”:\“person\”}]},\“person\”:{\“personsAndTeams\”:[{\“id\”:15680801,\“kind\”:\“person\”}]}}") {id}}"}"