Show dropdown a defualt value on page load

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I have two dropdowns and a text input. Textinput will display the value based on the selection of dropdown2 and the dropdown2’ values will be populated based on the selection in dropdown1. I have set it all up sucessfully.

Now, what I want is that both dropdowns and textinput show default value. I cannot hard code it as this has to come from the database. User will feed data and that will be saved in our database and one of the data that the user wants to make default needs to be displayed on page load for that particular user.
I do not know how exactly this is done. But, to achieve it I think, I will create a database called ‘DefaultData’ this will link to the other database and fetch data. But, I do know know how can this be done. Can you help me?

Thank you.

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You can simply set the default in the dropdown settings itself if you were using a default value that could be added.

However as you are using a dataset, you would need to have the dropdown value preset by the dataset value instead.
https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/populate-dropdown-field-and-pre-select-one-option-for-the-user
https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/$w.Dropdown.html#options

See the link in the related posts box on this forum post.
https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/dropdown-populated-from-dataset-and-values-disappear-after-selection

Also, see other previous forum posts like these here.
https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/reload-page-with-new-dataset-value-after-dropdown-onchange
https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/dropdown-and-database

If you want the user to select a dropdown choice and then the dropdown to remember that choice and keep that value, then have a look at this recent forum post here.
https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-discussion/back-button-that-remembers-previous-dropdown-input

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If you want the specific user to choose a default value for the dropdown, then you will need to save that in a dataset first as you have stated and then you would have to check the user when the page loads, for example by checking their userId.

Then you can set the dropdown value that is shown to be the specific users data from the dataset that you have used to save the users chosen dropdown choices. If somebody isn’t logged in and viewing the page, you could set the dropdown value to show something else instead.

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OK, thanks for your reply. Let me go through the links.