I'm a newbie so apologies if I am asking a daft question.  I'm using Umbraco V5.

I have a document type and I want to add a dropdownlist property with a set of pre-defined values.  I have created a custom data type, and created the property on the document type in question.  I can create a document of that document type and set the property selecting one of the valid values.  All ok so far.

When I get to displaying this data in a template, I can't seem to extract this data.  I can do so for all other normal data types like textstring etc.  The template is allocated to the document type.

This is what my code looks like in my template:

@{var leftMenu = Umbraco.Field("pageSection");}

My property is called pageSection, and this is configured to be a custom dropdownlist (which is called "Page Section DropDownList").  What am I doing wrong?  It's bound to be something daft!