Tables need an option to clear the default value
There are various code tables in Alma that prompt you to choose "Default Value -- Yes/No" when adding a row to the table. Once multiple rows have been added, it's possible to select one value to be the default value. However, once one value has been chosen as the default at any point in time, there is NO option to clear the default value (short of deleting the default value row which causes other problems). There are times when we don't want a default value but "Yes" was chosen by mistake when adding a new row.
One example of this kind of table is the reporting codes for Acquisitions. We're getting a lot of "junk" data because a default value has been selected and if staff don't think to look at that field when working with the POL, the data gets left there.
Kyle Olney
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Stacey van Groll
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I live in fear of accidentally clicking a default radio button for this reason! Or for one of my fellow admins at our site to do this.
I've never gotten around to doing a case myself, but I wonder if anyone has and been advised by Ex Libris that this is actually an enhancement request as opposed to a defect?
It certainly seems to me to be a defect that you cannot unselect a default, and wonder what justification there would be for deliberately designing this into a product. -
Manu Schwendener commented
+1