Thanks, Geoff. I'll put it as an enhancement request.

Meanwhile, if I would try to do on my own, is there a way to extend
formtools to do it? What are the steps that needs to be accomplished?

Aram

On Sep 3, 2:46 pm, modius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 3, 7:04 pm, aram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Please advise on how to set up default value for ftType category. The
> > following doesn't seem to get categories with objectIDs in ftDefault
> > to be checked in form. Putting objectIDs in default instead of
> > ftDefault, or using categoryLabels doesn't help either.
>
> I don't believe default category values are possible. If its important
> raise your request as an enhancement:http://bugs.farcrycms.org/browse/FC
>
> Basically a category field is a list of UUIDs representing the
> categories selected but it is *not* the actual category reference in
> the farcry category sub-system.  The field stores these values so you
> can capture the category detail in things like Verity collections and
> so on.  It's also a nice short cut for UI elements such as the
> category picker itself.
>
> As a consequence you can't populate the field directly -- its
> effectively a programmatically derived value that is populated when
> the content item is saved to the data model.
>
> -- geoffhttp://www.daemon.com.au/
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