We are using the configuration API for our applications after moving
to 7.x. We have an application that has a list of items, administrator
should be able to configure the application to use one or more of the
items in the list. In our configuration interface, if we do this it works:
@Meta.AD(
required = false,
name = "Workflow States",
optionValues =
{
"Draft",
"Group",
"Summary",
"Reclaima",
"Board
Review",
"Closed-Duplicated",
"Closed-Withdrawn",
"Closed-Completed",
"Closed-Rejected",
"Withdrawn",
"Rejected"
})
public String[]
workflowStates();
Doing it this way, in the control panel the user can select from an
option menu and add as many items from the list as he/she wishes. The
problem is that if someone doesn't do the control panel configuration
first, then configuration.workflowStates() returns an empty array. We
would like to have a default list. In the tutorial
(https://help.liferay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018161391-Making-Your-Applications-Configurable-),
this appears to be the way to do this:
@Meta.AD(
required = false,
name = "Workflow States",
deflt =
"Draft|Group|Summary|Reclaima|Board
Review|Closed-Duplicated|Closed-Withdrawn|Closed-Completed|Closed-Rejected|Withdrawn|Rejected"
)
public String[] workflowStates();
However this doesn't work. We still get an empty string and now you
can't even configure the list in the control panel.
Is there some way to get this to work so that we can set a default
list of options, without having to go to the control panel?
