Hi, In Advance Form Utilities, we are able to use populateDropdown to popul

Will Teoh over 11 years ago

Hi,
In Advance Form Utilities, we are able to use populateDropdown to populate the dropdown option dynamically. However, is there a way to set the default value of the dropdown field? eg: dropdown value: {"Apple", "Orange", "Mango"}, default value: Orange. So when the form shows up, it will show Orange instead of Apple.

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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 11 years ago

You will have to modify the JS code of the component. More information at forum.appian.com/.../e-98437
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0 Will Teoh over 11 years ago

Hi Eduardo, in this case, will it be easier to use jQuery? My idea is load the js to populate the dropdown, and then only load the jquery script to preset the default value.

var hiddenFieldValue = FormAPI.getValue(hiddenFieldId).id;
$('#dropdownControl_fd_component_' + window.FormDesigner.runtimeNamespace + fieldId).val(hiddenFieldValue);
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
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over 11 years ago

Yes you can make that an extra call instead of modifying the code. You should give that a go.
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0 Will Teoh over 11 years ago

I have tried but there is no response to the onload event thus no default value is set. If i put an alert to display the hiddenFieldValue, it does return the correct value. How can I fix this???
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
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over 11 years ago

Use IE Developer Tools (hitting F12) and its scripting feature to debug. Put a

debugger;

line in your code so you can inspect elements and run tests.
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