'default value' in custom fields

Hey Guust,

Thank you for the timely reply. Of course, I agree and understand. But if it was an “admin only” shouldn’t that work.

I have another WPGD custom field where I use shortcode and it works fine.

I just can’t get the default value part (in an admin only field) working if I want to use a shortcode there.

Thanks.

Hey Alex,

OK, I appreciate the detail, maybe I am just not understanding the usage of ‘default value’.

So I place text or shortcode in the default value input box in Places > Settings > Custom Fields > (field) > ‘default value’ input box

I then go into admin and CREATE a new record, leaving that field’s input box empty (and since it is Admin Only, a user could not change it either).

When I go to the new record on the front end, the tab associated with that field does NOT display. I would have thought it should display with the default value content?

I then go into the new record and edit it (adding some test profile content). The ‘Profile’ tab now shows (because it has content where it didn’t before), but the tab for the field with the default value still does NOT show.

I confirmed that the listing has a package which would include the default value field in question.

I try this process with a different field (Places > Settings > …), setting a default value for it just to test, and I get the same result.

I then manually add content into the field input box in the admin edit screen and save it, and that content DOES display on the listing on the front end after edit.

To me, it looks like content placed in the ‘default value’ input box is not actually being displayed on a listing, even after creating New Listings or editing existing listings.

But I may be totally missing something on default value usage?

And thanks for the link on hiding tabs display.

Of note, I went in and added a new textarea field, placed a default value in it, then added a new gd_place listing, and it worked properly to display all the default values (the new textarea and the text and shortcode fields I previously placed) in the new listing.

I did then go back in and edit a couple of existing listings, but when saving those changes, the default values of existing fields (that were empty in admin of these listing) did not display in the edited listing front end.

(I cleared all caches to make sure it wasn’t a cache issue).

At this point, I’m simply going to go with knowing default value works with new listings. I’d like to get it where edits to listings will add the default value if it’s been placed in a field settings (and is empty in the edited listing). I’ll continue to mess around and see what I can get done there and will update with site details.

Thanks.

Agreed. I’m just trying to figure out what does and doesn’t work for creating best practices on our workflow.

We’ll add default values as needed, and use export/import for mods.

Thanks for your help. Have a great day.