Default selection on chooser?

[TCArknight]

I have a chooser selection for race and I want to automatically select the Human race. Is there a defvalue setting I can use or another way to default the selection?

Thanks!
TC

 

[Mathias]

Here's the page of the Savage Worlds walkthrough in the wiki where Human is made the default race for the Savage Worlds game: http://hlkitwiki.wolflair.com/index.php5?title=Races_and_Racial_Abilities_(Savage)

 

[TCArknight]

Thanks Mathias!

I was looking at the portal and table itself and never thought of putting it in the bootstrap.1st entry...

 

[Mathias]

I think TCArknight figured out the error, but if the link isn't working, add a ) to the end of the address - this forum has a bug detecting the ) at the end of a pasted in hyperlink, and I thought I fixed it, but it doesn't seem to be working correctly now.

 

[Mathias]

Defaults for menu fields are set in the portal, but an actual pick that's added to the character goes in bootstrap.1st - both the permanent bootstraps and the defaults for choosers.

 

[TCArknight]

How would you do it for a menu_literal? I tried: <autoadd value="5" portal="techlvl"/>
, but I got:

Hero Lab was forced to stop compilation after the following errors were detected:

File: bootstrap.1st (line 70) - Unrecognized attribute 'value' in element 'autoadd'

The portal is:

<portal
id="techlvl"
style="menuNormal">
<menu_literal
field="perTL">
<choice value="0" display="- Choose -"/>
<choice value="1" display="1"/>
<choice value="2" display="2"/>
<choice value="3" display="3"/>
<choice value="4" display="4"/>
<choice value="5" display="5"/>
<choice value="6" display="6"/>
<choice value="7" display="7"/>
<choice value="8" display="8"/>
<choice value="9" display="9"/>
<choice value="10" display="10"/>
<choice value="11" display="11"/>
<choice value="12" display="12"/>
</menu_literal>
</portal>

 

[Mathias]

If you're using a menu_literal, that's even easier to set a default for.

Go to the thing. Set a fieldval for this field's value:

<fieldval field="perTL" value="5"/>