metadata capture form doesn't show default selected="t"

Hi Friends,
The Metadata Capture Form ($IW_HOME/local/config/datacapture.cfg) doesn't show the default selected="t" when i select File->Set Metadata to metatag my web assets.

Below are the excerpts from my MDC form:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<data-capture-requirements type="metadata">
 <ruleset name="Default Rule">
  <item name="Title">
   <database data-type="VARCHAR(480)"/>
   <textarea required="f" wrap="virtual" rows="2" cols="60" rtf="f"/>
  </item>
  <item name="Description">
   <database data-type="VARCHAR(520)"/>
   <textarea required="f" wrap="virtual" rows="6" cols="60" rtf="f"/>
  </item>
  <item name="Language">
   <database data-type="VARCHAR(80)"/>
   <select multiple="t">
    <option label="Select one or more Languages" value=""/>
    <option label="English" value="English" selected="t"/>
    <option label="Chinese" value="Chinese"/>
    <option label="French" value="French"/>
    <option label="German" value="German"/>
    <option label="Italian" value="Italian"/>
    <option label="Japanese (EUC-JP)" value="EUC-JP"/>
    <option label="Japanese (Shift-JIS)" value="Shift-JIS"/>
   </select>
  </item>
...
...
..

As shown above, the "Language" shown to me should be "English" but it is not.

I am running TeamSite 5.5.2 on Solaris 2.8.

What may be wrong ? any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

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bboyle

I have noticed that default values are handled differently depending on whether or not other metadata is set.

For example, if you had a page with NO METADATA and tried to set metadata, I would expect English to be selected as the default.

On the other hand, if you had a page with the title already set, but no value for language, I would expect no option to be selected for language ... the default would be ignored.

That's what I've observed anyway.
Hope it's some help.

fjvelasco

Hi

In FormsPublisher also occurs. If you have a DCR and you add a new item <select> width a <option selected="true"> into a <container> or at the first level, the existing replicants dont show the option selected in the combobox, but in the new replicants you obtain the combobox with the default option selected.

I didn't find a solution to this problem, simply apply "it works like it was designed"

The engine for Metadata and FormsPublisher seems to be the same.

Regards.

FJ