API Center Portal - Predefined Choice-based filters broken

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Description

Description

When exposing custom metadata fields (specifically predefined choices) to the portal, descriptions are used as values instead of values themselves. Selecting the option appears to filter by the description and will not find any results

I have at least one test API where "None" is selected, but selecting the equivalent description in the filter yeilds no results:

Reproduction steps

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a custom predefined choice metadata field
2. Make sure one or more assets have the field populated with an expected value
3. Make sure the metadata item is exposed in portal under "Portal Settings" tab
4. Open portal, and attempt to filter on the metadata definition

Expected behavior

• Value and description are shown for selection in the filter so there's clarity in what's being selected (e.g. value is in bold, or description is smaller text size, something to make them visually distinct)
• On selecting a filter item the value is shown in the portal, and the assets are correctly filtered

Actual behavior

• Only descriptions of items are displayed, no values
• Resulting search appears to be looking for the value to be equal to the description (at least visually)
• Filter doesn't show the expected API list

Screenshots

See above

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