diff --git a/docs/8.0/ayanova/docs/ay-start-form-picklist.md b/docs/8.0/ayanova/docs/ay-start-form-picklist.md
index fe1328d5..d280be12 100644
--- a/docs/8.0/ayanova/docs/ay-start-form-picklist.md
+++ b/docs/8.0/ayanova/docs/ay-start-form-picklist.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ## Pick list overview
 
 some are search only, some pick and search etc
+initial form load preselected will not fill list if it doesn't have to to save bandwidth
 
 ## Selecting
 
diff --git a/server/AyaNova/Controllers/PickListController.cs b/server/AyaNova/Controllers/PickListController.cs
index 269bef5b..6f7bcdb8 100644
--- a/server/AyaNova/Controllers/PickListController.cs
+++ b/server/AyaNova/Controllers/PickListController.cs
@@ -55,9 +55,10 @@ namespace AyaNova.Api.Controllers
         /// Independantely of this, if an addition space separated string that begins with two consecutive periods is encountered that will be considered a separate match to the TAGS collection of each object
         /// So a tag query might be entered as "..zon some" which would match all tags LIKE 'zon' and template fields LIKE 'some'</param>
         /// <param name="inactive">Include inactive objects in the returned list </param>
+        /// <param name="preId">Return only one item (for pre-selected items on forms) </param>
         /// <returns>Filtered list</returns>
         [HttpGet("List")]
-        public async Task<IActionResult> GetList([FromQuery]AyaType ayaType, [FromQuery]string query, [FromQuery] bool inactive)
+        public async Task<IActionResult> GetList([FromQuery]AyaType ayaType, [FromQuery]string query, [FromQuery] bool inactive, [FromQuery]long preId)
         {
             if (!serverState.IsOpen)
                 return StatusCode(503, new ApiErrorResponse(ApiErrorCode.API_CLOSED, null, serverState.Reason));
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Api.Controllers
             //Instantiate the business object handler
             PickListBiz biz = PickListBiz.GetBiz(ct, HttpContext);
 
-            var o = await biz.GetPickListAsync(PickList, query, inactive, log);
+            var o = await biz.GetPickListAsync(PickList, query, inactive, preId, log);
             if (o == null)
                 return BadRequest(new ApiErrorResponse(biz.Errors));
             else
diff --git a/server/AyaNova/PickList/PickListFetcher.cs b/server/AyaNova/PickList/PickListFetcher.cs
index 51ccf5e5..e7dd1979 100644
--- a/server/AyaNova/PickList/PickListFetcher.cs
+++ b/server/AyaNova/PickList/PickListFetcher.cs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.PickList
     internal static class PickListFetcher
     {
         internal static async Task<List<NameIdActiveItem>> GetResponseAsync(IAyaPickList PickList, string autoCompleteQuery,
-        string tagSpecificQuery, bool includeInactive, AyContext ct, ILogger log)
+        string tagSpecificQuery, bool includeInactive, long preId, AyContext ct, ILogger log)
         {
 
             //Sort out effective Template
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.PickList
                     //log out the exception and the query
                     log.LogInformation("PickList query failed unexpectedly.  Query was:");
                     log.LogInformation(q);
-                    log.LogInformation(e,"DB Exception");
+                    log.LogInformation(e, "DB Exception");
                     throw new System.Exception("PickListFetcher - Query failed see log");
 
                 }
diff --git a/server/AyaNova/biz/PickListBiz.cs b/server/AyaNova/biz/PickListBiz.cs
index c1b39732..f1e2786b 100644
--- a/server/AyaNova/biz/PickListBiz.cs
+++ b/server/AyaNova/biz/PickListBiz.cs
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
 
 
         //get picklist 
-        internal async Task<List<NameIdActiveItem>> GetPickListAsync(IAyaPickList PickList, string query, bool inactive, ILogger log)
+        internal async Task<List<NameIdActiveItem>> GetPickListAsync(IAyaPickList PickList, string query, bool inactive, long preId, ILogger log)
         {
 
             //Crack and validate the query part set a broken rule if not valid and return null
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
             }
 
             //Autocomplete and tagonly query terms now set for consumption by PickListFetcher, ready to fetch...
-            List<NameIdActiveItem> items = await PickListFetcher.GetResponseAsync(PickList, AutoCompleteQuery, TagSpecificQuery, inactive, ct, log);
+            List<NameIdActiveItem> items = await PickListFetcher.GetResponseAsync(PickList, AutoCompleteQuery, TagSpecificQuery, inactive, preId, ct, log);
             return items;
         }