Before selecting anything in dropdown list, it shows blank, anyway to show the first item?

[helenyeliu]

HI Community,

  Thanks for helping to answer a lot of questions. 

  Another question is that I am using dropdown list to pick the company from a list, before I select any company, it shows blank, is there any way to show the first item of the list instead of blank?

thanks,

Helen

[dbaum]

Define the column's initial value property with an expression that yields the value you want to be the default.