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Specify the default value of field type enum?

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Posted on by TAHER El Mehdi

Hi, I added a field JOBCat to the customer table and give it an Enum as the following:

enum 50102 JobsCat
{
value(0; "Web Developer")
{
}
value(1; "Mobile Developer")
{
}
value(2; "Desktop Developer")
{
}
value(99; "Jobless")
{
}
}

The problem is all customer affected to the first job in enum, question is how can I specify the job of enum by default?

for example, all customers must have Jobless which has 99 id of enum.

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YUN ZHU 92,367 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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RE: Specify the default value of field type enum?

Hi, hope the following can give you some hints.

How to set default Account type in General Journals (Customization)

https://yzhums.com/26385/

Thanks.

ZHU

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Teddy Herryanto (Th... 14,191 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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RE: Specify the default value of field type enum?

The default is set on the table fields that are using the enum using InitValue property. You don't set the default value on the enum object itself.

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Nitin Verma 21,666 Moderator on at

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RE: Specify the default value of field type enum?

Hi,

Adding More info. If you use InitValue property it will not update existing records instead it will change the values as you are requesting only on new records, to update the existing report, I would prefer the Config. Package or Batch report to update all the records. anyways find the below code it will work for all new customers.

tableextension 50105 "Modify CustomerCard" extends Customer

{

fields

{

field(50000; JobCat; Enum JobsCat)

{

Caption = 'JobCat';

InitValue = Jobless;

DataClassification = ToBeClassified;

}

}

}

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,037 Moderator on at

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RE: Specify the default value of field type enum?

Have you tried the initvalue property?

learn.microsoft.com/.../devenv-initvalue-property

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