I have a resource called NonprofitRequest (users can request nonprofits missing from our system). In the admin, I'd like to have an action AcceptNonprofitRequest, which accepts a request by creating a Nonprofit with the requested values (name, location, website, etc). Ideally, in the AcceptNonprofitRequest action, the admin user will be able to modify the requested values before submitting though. Essentially, I'd like to be able to have the

default

value of the action fields use the values from the NonprofitRequest model. Like this:

ruby
class AcceptNonprofitRequest < Avo::BaseAction
  field :name, as: :text, default: ->(model) { model.name }
end

As far as I can tell the above is not possible. Anyone have any other ideas on how I can enable this behavior on an action? Maybe I need to use something besides actions for this?

Are you sure that doesn’t work?

Maybe it only works on

new

then, reading the docs there - Now I'm just trying

ruby
field :foo, as: :text, required: true, default: -> { 'bar' }

and I'm getting:

The default option works only on the new view

Oh hmm it's actually a form in an action, opened from the show view. Does that count as an edit view for the action form?

it seems like default as a proc is not supported in an action. I'm getting the same result