# Choice component (Details page) - Default Value, selection unavailable

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-component-details-page-default-value-selection-unavailable/66812>\
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**Created:** [October 6, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-component-details-page-default-value-selection-unavailable/66812 "2023-10-06T21:15:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![CPowell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/cpowell/32/61048_2.png) [@CPowell](https://community.glideapps.com/u/CPowell)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-component-details-page-default-value-selection-unavailable/66812/1 "2023-10-06T21:15:00Z")

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I’m sure this has been discussed but I have dug around for a while now and can’t find something relating to this specific issue. I have a Choice component on a details page and I would like it to have a default value of “Active” however the choice setup on the right panel doesn’t have a place for me to select that option. It is available in a Form, however not here.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this just not an option and if so why?

Thank you in advance for any help or guidance.

-Chad

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-component-details-page-default-value-selection-unavailable/66812/2 "2023-10-06T21:49:12Z")

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Unlike a form, you can’t set a default on a detail screen because it’s pulling the value straight from the column in the table. In a form, you haven’t written a row yet, so it makes sense to be able to set a default. On a detail screen, you are working with live data, so setting a default would overwrite any preexisting value in that column in that existing row.

Your only option is to set the value via a Set Column when navigating to that screen. So when you select John Smith from a list, you need to change the action to a custom action that first sets the default value in the column that the choice component is writing to, followed by a second action to navigate to the detail screen. Then when you arrive in that detail screen, the value will already be set as the selected choice.

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**Author:** ![CPowell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/cpowell/32/61048_2.png) [@CPowell](https://community.glideapps.com/u/CPowell)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 1:26am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/choice-component-details-page-default-value-selection-unavailable/66812/3 "2023-10-07T01:26:36Z")

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Thank you Jeff for both the explanation and the solution, I will do that!