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October 21, 2013
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select field default value question

  • October 21, 2013
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I have a form I created with a select field.  The first value in the pick list is Choose One.  I want to force the selection of a field value other than the first value of "Choose one" .  How do I do this?
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October 21, 2013
You can probably leverage some custom JS to validate that selection was something different than the default.

See this article: http://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000KyqMCAS

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t shows how to display one value but record another, you could leverage this to put in clean non-selections.
October 21, 2013
Isn't there a way within Marketo to easily accomplish this?  i.e. to use the initial value essentially as a label value, but require the user to choose one of the other values?  I thought that I had done this in the past.
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October 22, 2013
You can do this checking the "Is Required" option. Go to edit Form, Select the Field you want to choose and under form properties, Checkmark the "Is required" field. Here's a screenshot - 

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