Feature Idea (one per thread): When adding custom fields in the Custom Type builder, add support for a default value in addition to the placeholder value. Issue that it solves: There are often scenarios where a default generic value will be appropriate most of the time, but the field still needs to…

Hi, thanks for your feedback! Having automatic or default values is a feature that we have had in mind for some time now, it exists in the backlog of our product board, however there is still no estimated time for its development/launch. For now I can recommend two variants: Use a Select field .…

Hi @Phil , What is the expected behavior when adding a new field (either to a slice or primary section) and default value? Is it possible to set the default value for all documents without having to save each one? Our use case is we wanted to add a boolean toggle to control showing/hiding another f…

Hi Emerson, Sorry about the delay in the reply. I moved your comment here as it's more relevant to this open feature request and also maybe this other bulk actions request: [image] Bulk delete articles / documents Prismic for Content Creators Is there a way to…

OK, so I talked to the team and the issue with setting the default value in the existing documents is that basically we don’t have any data in the database for this specific field for an old document. We could have chosen to have the field dynamically rendered as “default value” in the api but the …

Thanks for confirming the behavior @Phil . We can handle these cases on our end for now. I am not sure if you would know, but our engineering team feels like this was changed in the last few months as we have used the default value before (at least for boolean), and it was OK. However, I can not co…

I can confirm that nothing has changed, so maybe it's like you suggested with the false default masking the issue.

Add ability to include a Default Value to fields in the content builder

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Add ability to include a Default Value to fields in the content builder

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