The default behavior should be nothing is selected. Sébastien Rainville over 2 years ago. Radio Button Default State selection not setting Hi, I have created a State definition with 3 values for a Radio Button and set a Default State as one of these 3 values. Only one radio button in a group can be selected at the same time. Unlock the data card, delete the default dropdown control, and insert a Radio control. In case if it is false, i.e., the radio button is not selected. The list selection is also bound to a database, but I do not want to create another value just here for the default. However, you can reset the radio buttons just as any other fields if you have not set one of its states to be the default. But at Runtime its not defaulting to that selected value. 2. The value of the "unchecked" state is always "Off". Note: If no radio button is selected when the form is submitted, the radio group is not included in the submitted form data at all, since there is no value to report. Radio buttons are normally presented in radio groups (a collection of radio buttons describing a set of related options). Compare User Selection with defaultChecked. In 7.2.1 all the example related to radio button will come up without having any default option selected. See Luke Wroblewski's "Form Design" page 158. Am I missing any step? You may occasionally want to determine whether the currently selected radio button in a group is selected by default. Hi, let's say you have a radio button group with 3 choices but you don't want a default value already selected, you want all 3 options not selected, is that possible? Is there a way to change this? So may be at your end you should first check the behaior in UI gallery Created a custom state definition with 3 values as : On, Off, NotSet When I remove the default value of 1 from the database and run the application, it complains that it can NOT find a value in the list (which makes sense). Once we ran this code, the code will first check if the radio button is selected or not. Set below formulas: Radio1.Items= ["Yes","No"] Radio1.Default= ThisItem.YesNo.Value DataCardValue11.Update= Radio1.Selected But in your case, let them just click a checkbox if they want the gift card. It's ok to make an exception to the rule that a radio button set should always have a default selection in this case. If it's not necessary to show all options side-by-side, use a … Additionally, the code inside the if condition will execute, and the radio button will select. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) Plugin Author Farhan Noor This should not be the behavior as something is already selected. How can you have a radio button group with no selected default value. This defaults my radio button to 1. Steps followed:-1. Try selecting various radio buttons in the form above, and then click the "Check if Default" button to see the result. Then an if condition will validate if the returned value is true or false. The "unselected" state is actually not really a "legal" state for radio buttons. The defines a radio button. The default radio button selection is the first item in the tree. One quick way to verify the behavior is to go to UI gallery and check the radio button example. Radio buttons allow the user to select one option from a set. However, once a user has selected a radio button, the user can't deselect the button to restore the group to its initial cleared state. In the default state, no radio button in a RadioButtons group is selected. If there are only two options, and you need to force a choice, use radio buttons and do not pre-select one. Radio buttons actually mean that either one of the values is to be selected. You should use radio buttons for optional sets that are mutually exclusive if you think that the user needs to see all available options side-by-side. That is, all radio buttons are cleared. 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