How to set default value for field in field management

Hi

How do i set the default value for at field in the field management, if i don't want the field to be shown at registration ?

Regards Picht

I am having the same issue! If the field is not shown on registration the default value is not set at all when user come to edit his profile. If you have radio nothing is selected and for dropdown there is empty option on top. This is quite ugly! Is there an fix? I consider making js code that will solve this at least cosmetically on user edit profile page.

You can't. The default only applies if the field is shown during registration. There is currently no means to supply a default for profile edit. Only way to force this usage is with CB Auto Actions setting the fields value on the after user registration trigger. We've a feature ticket already to improve the default field value behavior.

Thank you Krileon,

Then let it be done properly.
First the default value should be set by trigger as you propose for new users
For existing users, if this is new field, the default value should be set for all.
It should be possible to edit the default value after field was created:
administrator should be able to select if the old default value will be changed to new one for all existing users or not.

As temporary solution I managed to handle this issue with custom JavaScript but this is not clean nor nice.

Thank you!