Custom meta field default value "All"

[rkg82]

Greetings support team,

In our various use cases, a default value of "All" for a drop-down list custom meta field is misleading from the end-user perspective, and we would prefer to specify the default value ourselves.

Unless I'm mistaken, this does not appear to be possible unless we hack the generated script.

What's the best way to handle this?

Can this be considered as an option for a future release?

[Simon (PassMark)]

There is currently no option within Zoom to do this.

In the 'search' file/script, look for the <select> with class 'zoom_metaform_dropdown'
On the next line, change the first <option> with value = -1 from STR_FORM_CATEGORY_ALL to the value you want.

We can have a look at allowing the user to change this as an option in a future release.

[rkg82]

Thanks for the hack.