Default Value in Drop Down List of Embeddable Multivalued Field is Appearing Incorrectly

Question

I have a season schema in which episodes is an multivalued embeddable field. Episode schema is further having pricing as embeddable field. In Pricing schema there is a drop down list field which is fetching values from category named 'CurrencyType', The default value for currency type field is keyword 'USD' which was created in 010 Schema Master. Other keywords in currency type category are created in 030 content master. While creating season component, the first episode shows the correct default value for currency type field i.e. USD. But as Episode is a multivalued field, when I add second episode then instead of default value in pricing i.e. 'USD' it shows other keyword selected i.e. 'CAD'

When I add second episode instead of Default value i.e. 'USD' which is higlighted in above image, it shows some other keyword i.e. 'CAD'

Answer 1

The behavior of default values for Schema fields is that it will be set by a trigger, which is the first instance (i.e. load) of the Schema.

So you see when you have your first episode (loading the Episode and the Pricing Schema for the first time), that your default value for currency is set to its default value. However when you add a second episode, the embedded pricing Schema has already been loaded before. Hence the default value mechanism isn't triggered for that field anymore, and since it is a mandatory field, the first value (alphabetically) of the dropdown will be automatically selected, which in your case must be 'CAD'.

So what you are seeing is expected behavior unfortunately.