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Defaulting a value in a SelectList when you don't know the values beforehand
I've already seen the examples where you can set "CANADA" to be the default country when the selectListOptions are a known quantity.
However, I have to generate a selectList dynamically, and then based on the result set, choose an appropriate default.
I have a business_unit field. Once I pick a business_unit, I need to populate a BOSS Unit field. However, the default BOSS Unit may be different for each publication. Here's what I have:
<apex:pageBlockSectionItem > <apex:outputLabel value="BOSS Unit" for="bossUnit"/> <apex:selectList value="{!defBossUnit}" id="bossUnit" size="1"> <apex:selectOptions value="{!BOSSUnits}"/> </apex:selectList> </apex:pageBlockSectionItem>
Here's my controller code. Basically some business_units have the default as PG, others as PAGE:
public List<SelectOption> getBOSSUnits() { List<BossUnitSize__c > units = [Select b.Name, b.UnitSize__c from BossUnitSize__c b where b.SetID__c = :pricing.business_unit__c order by b.Name]; List<SelectOption> options = new List<SelectOption>(); for (BossUnitSize__c unit : units) { options.add(new SelectOption(unit.unitSize__c, unit.Name)); if (unit.Name == 'PAGE' || unit.Name == 'PG') { defBossUnit = unit.Name; } } return options; }
The above code does NOT default the defBossUnit correctly. Any ideas?
arrgh - stupid mistake. I was placing the wrong value into the field, which wouldn't update the page. It should have been: