Appraisal Document - Dropdown boxes...

Hello,
I'm using the BSP application for appraisals. I've got this problem.....
I want to use mandatory dropdown boxes but....the dropdown boxes come prefilled with a default value when I open the form. I don't want a default value.
Sure it's mandatory and it has a value, but appraisals forms are boring to fill out, and I'm sure half of my endusers will just press the Submit button without touching the form since it is prefilled.
Radio-buttons work fine but I don't want to use them.
Is there a way to have mandatory dropdown boxes without default values?
Tks

Hi,
BSP HAP_DOCUMENT gets the properties from the appraisal template. So for dropdown values, you need to make them mandatory in the Template. Against each criteria, goto the columns and select the "Required" entry for the column. This will reflect in mandatory dropdown on the BSP Page also.
If the templates are released and it is not possible to change the template, then clone the BSP application to a Z application and then coding has to be done in the dropdown logic.
Hope this helps you,
Regards,
Subbu.

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