Hi,

I've just upgraded to 2.1.1 after using 1.13 for the past couple of years (a server hd failure wiped all my data ) and I'm having a bit of trouble with the category browser.

I've searched the forums and can't seem to find any related articles, so here goes:

I have added some new select fields to the category table and when I add a category using the 'Database' menu option the default values are automatically selected on the form.

However when I use the 'Browse' menu option and try to add a new sub-category, the default select values are not set on the form and the select boxes simply have '---'.

When I look at the source code for each form the 'Database' form shows the <option>x<selected> HTML, whereas the <selected> is not present in the 'Browser' form.

Any idea how I would update this, since I'd like to use the browser to add new categories, but without the default values selected it'll be a nightmare moving the mouse down and manually updating each field for each new category.

Any help appreciated.

All the best
Shaun

Quango,

Database > Links > Properties > Your Column > Change Default.

Giovanni,

Thank you for the reply, however I'm not sure you read my post correctly.

I'm aware of how to set the default value for a field, but if you read my original post you will see that I'm having trouble with the category browser - it does not appear to pre-select the default values for my fields when I use the 'add' form.

If anyone can assist with this I'd appreciate it.

All the best
Shaun

Whilst wary of being patronising, I would like to ask whether or not you have repeated the values that you have entered for your select column in the Values, Form Names and Form Values text-areas. With me, it all works perfectly, however one needs to cut and paste the values into all three text-areas, in the exact same order. I have never had any problem with it selecting default values, whether it be in the browse or the Database > Add menu system.

Giovanni,

Thanks, no you're not being patronising, but yes they are all present and correct - this is why I'm asking for assistance.

I assume the default behavour is for it to work and to pre-select the default values in both methods of calling the 'add' category form, however for some unknown reason mine isn't working as expected in 'browse' mode and I wondered if anyone could shed any light on it.

All the best
Shaun

Just to let you know your not alone - I just checked mine out and it does exactly the same. I only use the database option to add categories so I hadn't come across it before. I think this must be a bug that needs fixing and to fix it yourself I think you will need to edit the browser.pm file.

Laura.
The UK High Street

Hi,

I've figured this out now. Here's what I did in case its useful for other people:

In Browser.pm at sub category_add_form there's a section called ADD CATEGORY FORM CONSTRUCTION.

In the input => { } section there is a list of defaults. I added the names of my custom fields and the default values I want on the form and it now works as expected

All the best
Shaun