Allowing different default option in a "select" aside from "select..." [#515342]

The select component is unable to provide a unique default select option for each component.

I've made a patch to populate the default select option form that components value. See attached patch.

Other ways to do this with out hacking the module would be to use form_alter, but I'm lazy and I figured all my other installs would use this too, so I patch the module. Hopefully we could get something like this into web form as I think many users would find it useful.

Comment	File	Size	Author
	components-select.inc_.patch	606 bytes	j0rd

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Comment #1

j0rd commented 23 July 2009 at 02:08

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This patch will not work. It will not allow to actually default the value of the field with something like %get['foo'].

My new solution will be to allow a blank key which will fail on "field required"

Example:

*OPTIONS*
|Default Option used to Describe other option
one|Option One
two|Option Two
three|Option Three

As mentioned about if this field is required, it should not allow a submit when the value of this select is set to "Default Option used to Describe other option".