Peter - does altering the second option so it looks like <option value="BLOSUM62" selected='true'>BLOSUM62 (default)</option> help? On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Peter <peter@maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup a select parameter where I want to pre-select an entry as the default (rather than just the first entry). To that end, I have set the value attribute as implied by the wiki documentation: http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/ToolConfigSyntax

e.g.

<param name="matrix" type="select" value="BLOSUM62" label="Scoring matrix"> <option value="BLOSUM80">BLOSUM80</option> <option value="BLOSUM62">BLOSUM62 (default)</option> <option value="BLOSUM50">BLOSUM50</option> <option value="BLOSUM45">BLOSUM45</option> <option value="PAM250">PAM250</option> <option value="BLOSUM90">BLOSUM90</option> <option value="PAM30">PAM30</option> <option value="PAM70">PAM70</option> </param>

This does not work - Galaxy (in Firefox at least) always defaults to the first entry as the default. This also happens if I set display="radio". Is this a bug, is setting a default for select parameters done in another way, or is this a missing feature?

For now I have just put the default at the top, breaking the alphabetic order:

<param name="matrix" type="select" label="Scoring matrix"> <option value="BLOSUM62">BLOSUM62 (default)</option> <option value="BLOSUM80">BLOSUM80</option> <option value="BLOSUM50">BLOSUM50</option> <option value="BLOSUM45">BLOSUM45</option> <option value="PAM250">PAM250</option> <option value="BLOSUM90">BLOSUM90</option> <option value="PAM30">PAM30</option> <option value="PAM70">PAM70</option> </param>

Regards,

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