Use Antlers to set the default value of a form field

[QuentinGab]

Hi,
My question is very basic but I havn't been able to find any answer in the docs or in discussions here.

Basically, I have a form text field called "first_name" and I'm trying to set its default value to the current user first_name.
It would be perfect if I could just set the field default value to {{ current_user:first_name }} with antlers : true in cp but as you might expect it litterally output <input value="{{ current_user:first_name }}" /> in the DOM (not parsed by antlers).

Am I doing something wrong ? Do I even understand what antlers : true stands for ? So many questions

[edalzell]

Why not do just what you wrote <input value="{{ current_user:first_name }}" /> ?

[QuentinGab]

I'm trying to set the default value of the field from the cp, so what I did is fill the default field in the bluebrint with the value {{ current_user:first_name }} but it is not parsed by antlers and just output it as a string.

[edalzell]

not sure that will work, but try adding antlers: true to the field.

[QuentinGab]

I did it too but it changes nothing, the string in default value is not parsed by antlers

[duncanmcclean]

I believe we did what you're explaining recently but it only worked when using the Regex parser and not the new Runtime parser. We ended up finding a workaround for our use case.

[QuentinGab]

Okay, thanks for the answer ! I will use a workaround then