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Lennart Stoop 304 posts 842 karma points

Dec 23, 2013 @ 16:33

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Can property editor prevalues have a default value?

Hi guys,

I have added some prevalues to a property editor via the package.manifest as documented here:

http://umbraco.github.io/Belle/#/tutorials/Adding-Configuration-To-Property-Editor

Is there any way to add a default value which is then shown in the data type configuration by default ?

Grtz

L

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David Zweben 268 posts 754 karma points

Jan 02, 2014 @ 19:03

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I have only anecdotal experience to refer to here, but when I was testing my own property editor package recently, I noticed that when you include a Data Type in the package, any options you had entered in that Data Type will carry over when a user installs the package. This isn't a true default, because it will only carry over to that specific instance of the property editor, not every time a user creates a data type with that property editor, but it's better than nothing.

Hope this helps,
David Zweben

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Lennart Stoop 304 posts 842 karma points

Jan 03, 2014 @ 15:28

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Hi David,

From what I have read earlier (I think it was on Tim's blog) default values will be configurable in a future release.

I haven't tried deploying the package just yet, so that's definitely good to know as in my experience one instance of the data type suffices in most cases :-)

Thanks for that!

Lennart

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LP 5 posts 75 karma points

Apr 06, 2016 @ 12:39

Any news in that topic since last time? I want my boolean prevalued to be populated with true. Already tried the following:

"prevalues": {
    "fields": [
        {
            "label": "...",
            "key": "some-key",
            "view": "boolean",
            "value":  1
        }
    ]
}

"prevalues": {
    "fields": [
        {
            "label": "...",
            "key": "some-key",
            "view": "boolean",
            "value":  "1"
        }
    ]
}

"prevalues": {
    "fields": [
        {
            "label": "...",
            "key": "some-key",
            "view": "boolean",
            "value":  true
        }
    ]
}

Of course none worked. That wasn't surprising for the last one, since boolean has true/false mapped to 1/0

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Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib

Nov 02, 2016 @ 12:44

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Hey LP, did you ever figure out how to get this to work? Curious about it myself.

Thanks,
- Lee

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Bo Jacobsen 608 posts 2406 karma points

Dec 06, 2017 @ 23:14

In case anyone still wondering.

"prevalues": {
    "fields": [
        {
            "label": "...",
            "key": "some-key",
            "view": "boolean"
        },
        {
            "label": "...",
            "key": "some-otherKey",
            "view": "textstring"
        }
    ]
},
"defaultConfig": {
    "some-key": "1",
    "some-otherKey": "Have fun"
}

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