🆕 Default values in forms and add screens!

[david]

I had to take a break from my day to announce that forms and add screen components can now have default values. In this case, I default a choice in a form in my expenses app:

The default value is a computed column–it changes based on who owes whom!

[Deena]

This solves a huge issue in my app. Thank you thank you thank you!

[sardamit]

I have chuckled every time I saw your tweet mentioning this app on my timeline.

Cheesy, but it’s cute, and fun.

[Rosewebstudio]

@david It’s these ‘little’ things that make such a difference. Like polishing a fine jewel. Nice one

[Jeff_Hager]

Ooh, you can default dates to today or now as well. I like that!

[Robert_Petitto]

YES! This would be huge!

…and speaking of enhancing the “Add” screen…can we please add a visibility filter to it like the Edit Screen?!

…please and thank you.

[McJagger]

Huge, huge help!

[Fassil_Befekadu]

I do not see this option when using “Add Screen” components - only in Forms. Am I missing something? Otherwise a great enhancement.

[Jeff_Hager]

Is it a detail view screen or an add screen?

[Fassil_Befekadu]

@Jeff_Hager

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This is for when using “Choice” component (as opposed to a Data Entry component).

Does not work from here:

Works from here:

[Jeff_Hager]

Shows up for me. Can you also show the component settings where the default value is not showing?

Have you refreshed the browser?

[Fassil_Befekadu]

I have refreshed browser.
This is for when using “Choice” component (as opposed to a Data Entry component).

Here is a screen shot - I don’t see the “Default” option - which I do see when it is a Data Entry component.

No Default here:

I see Default here:

[Jeff_Hager]

I must have been looking at the wrong thing. I see what you are saying now. I guess I would consider that a bug.

[McJagger]

Seems when used as a choice, the default is trying to pull from the screen you are on’s data vs. from the choice data. Hope that makes sense. So if the choices are 1, 2 and 3 from the choices list and I go to select “Default Value” my options appear to be from where I am at vs. 1, 2 or 3.

[Deena]

Been waiting for this - Glide team @Mark @Jason, can you please acknowledge that you guys are aware of the fact that default value doesn’t work and we can wait to hear about the fix? Thank you!

[david]

Can someone please make a video that clearly shows a full-screen Glide builder session where the default value is missing, and share a link to that app?

We cannot tell from cropped screenshots alone where to look for the issue.

[david]

Also, if your component is missing a default value option, can you try adding another component of the same type to see if it has a default value option, and let us know?

[Jeff_Hager]

I haven’t dived deep into this yet, but quick things I noticed.

• Add mode doesn’t allow for a default option to be added on a choice component, but Form mode does. I assume because you currently can’t type in a default value for the choice component and it requires an underlying row.
• Can’t type a default choice value. It appears that it can only come from the underlying row (ex. the row the form button is on)
• Noticed staging allows you to set default from user profile sheet. Not seeing that in Live, but not sure if that part is released yet.

[Manu.n]

Hello,
I have the same problem as McJagger, the defaults of Choices are bound to Data instead of Source.

[david]

Yes, it looks like we haven’t figured out how to provide default values for Choices on Add screens yet!

We’ll make sure we get these out soon.