Hi there,

I have a content type I've set up, and part of it includes radio buttons in which a user needs to select the store type (I used the radio buttons data type in Umbraco for this).

There was no way to select a default 'checked' option in the data type, so I'm programmatically selecting the second option as the default to be checked when the page loads:

if (!angular.element('input[name=radiobuttons-storeType]').prop('checked')) {
    var checkboxes = angular.element('input[name=radiobuttons-storeType]');
    if (checkboxes[1]) {
        var $checkbox = $(checkboxes[1]);
        $checkbox.prop("checked", true);
    }
}

However I'm finding if I don't interact with the radio buttons, the default value isn't getting saved when I save the form (it's giving me an error saying the value can't be empty, however the button is checked when you look at the interface).

Just wondering what I need to do to get Umbraco to save the default value if the radio buttons aren't being interacted with/manually checked.

The code to set the default option is contained in a controller for another custom data type I have set up, since this one didn't have it's own controller. I'm wondering if this might be the issue - perhaps it needs it's own controller to work as I'm hoping.

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers,

Victoria