setting default value in symfony2 sonata admin bundle

Question

how can i set default value in sonata admin bundle the data option is missing in configureFormFields method

protected function configureFormFields(FormMappe         


        

Answer 1

For booleans, another option is to set a data value within the first array passed to your add method, inside of configureFormFields

So after some memtoring, my code (for a checkbox that I wanted to have checked by default) ended up looking something like this:

protected function configureFormFields(FormMapper $formMapper)
{
    $formMapper
        ->add('name')
        ->add('visible', null, ['label'=>'Visibility', 'data' => true ])
    ;
}

... which saved a few lines at the top of my file, since I could then get rid of the getNewInstance() definition.