[David Pfiffner]

Unless I am missing it, It would really be helpful to be allowed to set the default choices when adding new entries to be able to have selected by default the following:

Default choice to be (eg) Organization, instead of individial

Default choices for phone number to be something else, like “Work” or a choice not to even display the title of the number and just have the number displayed without having the titles “home phone” or “work phone” etc.

Default choice to make all new entries made “public” instead of unlisted.

I am having to add multiple entries, hundreds, and it is getting annoying having to select “public” everytime to make it visible, as well as selecting “organization” everytime I am adding a new entry.

[PatriciaB]

I am having this same issue. Is there a way to change the default choice on all new entries to “public” instead of unlisted.
Thanks!

[PatriciaB]

This is a work around.
It’s never good to alter the core templates but when adding a new entry, to change the default “unlisted” publishing type to “public” I altered the file in connections/includes/class.form.php line 787. Change “unlisted” to “public”.

I still would really like to remove the default “uncategorized” option entirely and have only my created category as the default category so that people don’t have to select a category at all. But his may involve too much editing of core files. Can someone from Connections please advise.

Thanks.

[PatriciaB]

OK – I found the answer to changing the default “uncategorized”. I completely missed this! I changed the name of “uncategorized” to my required category name by going to the category and changing the details – too simple!. Deleted all other categories and by default now all members are listed in the category name I created. Thanks Connections for making it easy.

[trmash]

Hi, I’m with David Pfiffner – is there any way (be it within the settings, or functions.php – just not the plugin code itself) to change the defaults?

It would be ideal for the default Organization, and Public.

Even better would be if selecting Organization meant that addresses and numbers defaulted to ‘Work’ – but realistically, I’d be happy with choosing the basic default options. ;)

Whenever I’ve had to add a large number of entries, I’ve updated the code within the plugin to make Organization the default – but obviously this isn’t ideal.

Fingers crossed it’s an easy fix, or something I’ve overlooked. Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ trmash

It’s on the todo list. Maybe the next release. Not sure if I want to add settings or just a filter that can be hooked into by dropping a function in the functions.php file. Maybe do both… I’ll see…

[David Pfiffner]

Well it has been a few years since I first made the suggestion and several other people also liked the idea. You finally had replied to the idea about 9 months after I first posted about it. I am just now going back to trying to use your plugin after all these years as there was still not enough reason for my client to want to use it. Too many missing features, especially including the one I sugguested above.

Am I missing it or did you ever finally add this feature, because I sure don’t see default options as outlined in my post and @trmash post.

[Steven Zahm]

@ David

In regards to your initial post…

re: Default choice to be (eg) Organization, instead of individial

There is not a setting to change this but it can be done via a filter. Outside of these few requests over the years there is not many asking for this. Here’s how to do this with a filter:

Install the Code Snippets plugin. It is a far, far, better option that adding code to the theme’s functions.php file. Consider what would happen when the theme is updated and that file is overwritten or you decide at some point to switch themes :)

Add a new snippet with the following code:

function cn_default_entry_type( $atts ) {

    $atts['default']['type'] = 'organization';

    return $atts;
}

add_filter( 'cn_metabox_publish_atts', 'cn_default_entry_type', 11 );

Save and Activate the new snippet.

re: Default choices for phone number to be something else, like “Work”

This too can be done with a filter. See this forum post for the details.

re: a choice not to even display the title of the number and just have the number displayed without having the titles “home phone” or “work phone” etc.

This can be done very easily using the Template Customizer feature in cMap 5 and newer.

re: Default choice to make all new entries made “public” instead of unlisted.

Default for entry visibility is now “Public” instead of “Unlisted”

Hope that addresses everything thoroughly,

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