I've noticed an issue that boolean fields created in Slice Machine with a default set do not publish the default when authoring. Comes out null. In order to get a response, I have to toggle the switch at least once when authoring the content. Anyone else experience this?

@skedify This should be fixed now. Please update to the latest: npm install slice-machine-ui@latest It seems it was actually an issue with the custom types. Saving boolean fields again should fix it: Go to your Custom type Edit the boolean field and toggle "default to true" and save Reload the cu…

Hi Shawn, Thanks for pointing this out, I'm going to bring it up with the team. To help me reproduce this error, can you give me your repo URL? Thanks.

Yes, slicemachinetest.prismic.io and is happening in my ArticleSummary shared slice. I have a boolean control that is set to true by default (using the checkbox in Slice Machine that says "defualt to true") that sets the image on the left or the right. It was returning null for the ones I didn't m…

Hey again Shawn, For this one are you saying that you added the boolean and then needed to go to old documents and republish them so that the boolean isn't null? Or that even if you create a new document you need to toggle the boolean field to not have a null response?

[image] Phil: For this one are you saying that you added the boolean and then needed to go to old documents and republish them so that the boolean isn't null? Or that even if you create a new document you need to toggle the boolean field to not have a null response? Creating a brand new docu…

@Phil @alws Just created another document with two instances of this slice. On the first one, I left the default with was true and on the other I toggled it to false. In my vue dev tools I see the this for the first response: slice:Object items:Array[1] primary:Object description:Array[1] image…

OK, that's sounds like a bug then. I'll need to bring this up with the team.

I've passed this on to the team they'll update you here if we have anymore info. Though I think this might be related to state not being set in Slices automatically in general, like this date field issue Timestamp inside slice - possible to use default: now?

Boolean Default Issue

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