If you are selecting the expression via picker in the content page where company_select exists, there is no need for content.
But if you are trying to access this select’s value in the layout page, you need content in the expression.
The picker usually always generates expression with content. Could be a bug in the picker in this case. Maybe share a bit more about the organisation of pages & where you are trying to bind this.
i am selecting it in the layout page…before it used to add content by itself… if i bind to text it works perfectly… but using it to filter a query it doesn’t, until i manually add content