How to preselect a value in a radio button field in Notes Client

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Environment:I have created a form with the special fields “SaveOptions” and “MailOptions” both set to 0, cause I want that documents created with that form only get saved via a customized save action. When opening the form, it is opened directly in edit mode via “@Command([EditDocument])” in the OnLoad Event of the form.

Concerned Fields:

On this form is a Radio Button field A, which gets its values from a hidden field B on the same form. Field B is a multivalue field. This works fine so far.

Sense of the Radio Button:

The Radio Button field is just for displaying and browse values in hidden fields. It is not meant for saving values. So documents created with this form never have a value in the Radio Button field A.

The Problem:

Today, when the form opens up, all values from hidden field B are displayed as options in the Radio Button field A, but none is selected. Users have to select desired values, even if there is just one option in the Radio Button field A.

What I want:

  1. Determine one value from hidden field B through calculations

  2. Set this determined value of hidden field B as the selected one in the Radio Button field A when the form opens up.

How can I set the selected option of a Radio Button filed in Domino Designer?

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Subject: Default Value formula

Set the default value using a formula.In designer, click on the field. In the bottom pane, under objects, you’ll see your field has a “Default Value”. Whatever you put in this, (text, formula, fieldname), is the thing that will be selected.

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Subject: Perfect :wink:

Your solution helped.

The values of the hidden field B I use as options in the radio button field where in the format “Text | Index”, where Text is a string and Index a number. Example “Servername Bla Bla | 1”.

I tried now as a test to set in a hard coded value in the “Default value” field of the radio button. When I set the whole value “Servername Bla Bla | 1” it does not work, when I just set the Index, it does not work, but when I just set the Text part of the whole value then I see the respective button is selected.

All values in subsequent fields which depend on the selection in the radio button filed can be recalculated in the OnLoad Event of the form by “@Command( [ViewRefreshFields] )”

Thank you very much!